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Description: Librarians and teen volunteers spearhead books Unbanned Initiative to combat censorship across the country.
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Subject: Books UnBanned
Description: The national award recognizes Brooklyn Public Library’s outstanding contribution to the profession.
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Subject: Books UnBanned , Staff
Publisher: BK Reader
Date: 2023 January 6, 2023
Description: Brooklyn Public Library, one of the largest library systems in the U.S., has launched the Books UnBanned initiative, which allows anyone across the country between the ages of 13 and 21 to get a free eCard from BPL, which will give them access to 350,000 ebooks and 200,000 audiobooks, as well as access to databases.
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Subject: Books UnBanned
Description: A team of librarians received an award for their exceptional work that goes beyond the thousands of books on the shelves.
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Subject: Books UnBanned , Staff
Description: The scholarly publication Library Journal has named a team from the Brooklyn Public Library as Librarians of the Year.
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Subject: Books UnBanned , Staff
Description: A Brooklyn Public Library initiative to combat state book bans has landed an Oklahoma teacher in trouble, after a parent there complained her promotion of the resource was itself a violation of state law.
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Subject: Books UnBanned
Description: This week, a high school teacher in Norman, Oklahoma, resigned after she was, by her own account, placed on leave because she provided her students with a QR code to the Brooklyn Public Library’s “Books Unbanned” site.
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Subject: Books UnBanned
Description: Like we needed another reason to love libraries: with book bans ramping up in school systems around the country, the Brooklyn Public Library is taking steps to make its massive catalog available to as many young people as possible.
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Subject: Books UnBanned
Description: The Books Unbanned program attempts to offer young readers a chance to read books that have been banned in classrooms in some parts of the U.S.
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Subject: Books UnBanned , Staff
Description: The Brooklyn Public Library offers a free library card to anyone in the U.S. aged 13 to 21 who wants to check out and read books digitally in response to the nationwide wave of book censorship and restrictions.
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Subject: Books UnBanned
Description: In New York City, the Brooklyn Public Library responded to the wave of book bans by opening their digital shelves. The initiative, named Books Unbanned by a BPL intern, allows people ages 13 to 21 to sign up for a digital card with the library. So far, they have issued more than 4,300 cards.
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Subject: Books UnBanned
Description: Former Norman teacher Summer Boismier is headed to the Big Apple. Boismier resigned from her teaching job in August after sharing a QR code linked to "Books Unbanned," a resource from the Brooklyn Public Library. Now she's closing this chapter by going back to where it all began, working full-time for BPL.
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Subject: Books UnBanned , Staff
Description: Teenagers can sign up for an eCard at the Brooklyn Public Library to access books that are banned in their hometown libraries.
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Subject: Books UnBanned
Description: The national award was given to the five librarians behind the Books Unbanned campaign.
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Subject: Books UnBanned , Staff
Description: The Brooklyn Public Library kicked off a new program on Wednesday that allows 13- to 21-year-olds to apply for a free eCard or traditional library card regardless of where they live.
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Subject: Books UnBanned
Description: New York City’s public libraries are taking on book banning. The New York Public Library and Brooklyn Public Library this week announced separate initiatives to provide access to books to readers across the country.
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Subject: Books UnBanned
Description: English teacher Summer Boismier placed a QR code directing students to the "Books Unbanned" program in response to book banning
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Subject: Books UnBanned
Publisher: Brooklyn Magazine
Date: 2022 August 24, 2022
Description: A team of Brooklyn Public Library employees have been named “Librarians of the Year” thanks to their work on the Books Unbanned project.
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Subject: Books UnBanned , Staff
Description: Across the United States, books by Black and LGBTQ authors are being banned from libraries and classrooms. Now the Brooklyn Public Library, one of the largest in the country, is making its digital collection available to young readers anywhere in the U.S. Chief Librarian Nick Higgins tells us about the program.
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Subject: Books UnBanned
Publisher: CBC Radio
Date: 2022 May 7, 2022
Description: The Brooklyn Public Library's "Books Unbanned" program was created in response to efforts to remove controversial titles from library shelves.
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Subject: Books UnBanned
Description: The Brooklyn Public Library is helping young people nationwide fight for their rights to read the literature they want. CBS2's Hannah Kliger went to the Central Library in Park Slope to tell us why the staff believes this initiative is more important now than ever.
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Subject: Books UnBanned
Description: As some public and school libraries pulled books from their shelves earlier this year, New York City’s Brooklyn Public Library made access to thousands of books easier for teens across the country.
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Subject: Books UnBanned
Description: The "Books Unbanned" program was launched to combat the growing number of books banned from many U.S. schools and public libraries. It's been so successful that it will now run indefinitely.
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Subject: Books UnBanned
Description: The Books Unbanned program attempts to offer young readers a chance to read books that have been banned in classrooms in some parts of the U.S.
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Subject: Books UnBanned , Staff
Publisher: Fox 5 New York
Date: 2023 January 6, 2023
Description: The Brooklyn Public Library is working at the national level to combat book bans.
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Subject: Books UnBanned
Description: Since April, Brooklyn Public Library’s (BPL) Books Unbanned program has offered free library cards to teens and young adults across the United States who live in communities impacted by book bans.
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Subject: Books UnBanned
Description: Brooklyn Public Library's Nick Higgins, Amy Mikel, Karen Keys, Jackson Gomes, and Leigh Hurwitz have been named LJ's 2023 Librarians of the Year for their work on Books Unbanned, providing free ebook access to teens and young adults nationwide to help defy rising book challenges across the country.
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Subject: Books UnBanned , Staff
Description: In a response to the sharp increase in recent weeks by school boards and communities across the United States banning books about race and those authored or about LGBTQ+ people, the Brooklyn Public Library is fighting back. The Brooklyn Public Library kicked off a new program on Wednesday that allows 13 to 21 year old young people to apply for a free eCard or traditional library card regardless of where they live.
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Subject: Books UnBanned
Description: An Oklahoma teacher was put on administrative leave after telling students how to access banned books through the Brooklyn Public Library.
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Subject: Books UnBanned
Creator: Haven Orecchio-Egresitz, Kenneth Niemeyer
Publisher: msn.com, Business Insider India
Date: 2022 August 23, 2022
Description: When a wave of book bans began sweeping the country, the Brooklyn Public Library fought back. It made the titles available online to students everywhere. Since April, its Books Unbanned program has gotten 6,000 requests for digital library cards from teenagers in all 50 states. Now the library is teaming up with PEN America, a nonprofit organization focused on free expression in literature, to bring the battle over censorship to the students’ hometowns.
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Subject: Books UnBanned
Description: As more and more school districts ban books from their classrooms and libraries, the Brooklyn Public Library is sharing its resources with teens around the country to fight encroaching censorship.
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Subject: Books UnBanned
Description: Scott Simon gets an update from Nick Higgins, chief librarian of the Brooklyn Public Library, on the Books Unbanned initiative. It makes e-books and audiobooks available to teens nationwide.
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Subject: Books UnBanned
Description: New York City libraries are taking a stand against an alarming rise in banned books across the nation — by making censored books available to people in the U.S.
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Subject: Books UnBanned
Description: An Oklahoma teacher left her job after she told her students how to access the library’s banned books program.
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Subject: Books UnBanned
Description: The five staff members were recognized as librarians of the year for their efforts to reach readers in places that censor books.
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Subject: Books UnBanned , Staff
Description: Banned Books Week begins on Sunday, and the city’s library systems are mobilizing to support the freedom to read.
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Subject: Books UnBanned
Description: A program has lent tens of thousands of e-books in places they're forbidden.
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Subject: Books UnBanned
Description: Brooklyn Public Library announced on April 13 that its librarians and teen volunteers have launched the Books UnBanned initiative to help teens fight censorship and book banning.
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Subject: Books UnBanned
Description: Library Journal has named the Brooklyn Public Library’s Books Unbanned Team its 2022 Librarians of the Year, for their work "providing free e-book access to teens and young adults nationwide, defying rising book challenges across the country."
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Subject: Books UnBanned , Staff
Description: In the face of censorship, students are coming together to exercise their right to read through banned book club gatherings.
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Subject: Books UnBanned
Description: Books Unbanned, BPL’s new teen-led initiative, allows every young person in the United States between the ages of 13 and 21 to apply for a free library card. It will be active for one year and provides unbounded access to all ebooks and audiobooks available at BPL.
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Subject: Books UnBanned
Description: On April 13, the Brooklyn Public Library (BPL) launched its Books UnBanned campaign: For a “limited time,” 13- to 21-year-olds nationwide can apply for a free one-year BPL e-card, which provides access to 350,000 e-books, 200,000 audiobooks, and over 100 databases.
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Subject: Books UnBanned
Description: From right-wing attacks to defunding threats library activism is more important than ever.
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Subject: Books UnBanned
Description: The Brooklyn Public Library (BPL) is counteracting a ban on certain books by letting anyone in the US aged 13 to 21 apply for a digital library card. This gives teens and young adults, regardless of their location in the United States, access to the library’s entire ebook collection.
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Subject: Books UnBanned
Description: The New York Public Library and Brooklyn Public Library are on a mission to end censorship.
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Subject: Books UnBanned
Description: New York's libraries are taking a stand against recent book bans by giving readers across the U.S. access to their e-books for a limited time.
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Subject: Books UnBanned
Description: Hope for change is what inspired 16-year-old Raisa Islam, a South Asian and Muslim high school junior in New York City, to join the Brooklyn Public Library’s Intellectual Freedom Teen Council.
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Subject: Books UnBanned
Description: nline resources are at the center of the national battle between limiting and expanding book access for teenagers.
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Subject: Books UnBanned
Description: An Oklahoma teacher left her job after the state's Secretary of Education accused her of giving students "banned and pornographic material." The accusation came after Summer Boismier posted a QR code for the Brooklyn Public Library's "Books UnBanned" program. It allows anyone 13 to 21 years old to access the library's entire digital collection for free. She is in New York this week, speaking out against banning books. She and Brooklyn Public Library President Linda Johnson spoke with WNYC's Morning Edition host Michael Hill about what happened, and the growing fight over book bans.
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Subject: Books UnBanned
Publisher: WNYC
Date: 2022 September 22, 2022
Description: A major development towards that goal has been the Brooklyn Public Library's Books Unbanned initiative, which invites individuals ages 13 to 21 to apply for a free BPL eCard, granting access to the entire eBook collection, including the many banned titles.
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