I just wrote an article about a teacher who was suspended from her job and later resigned. For the offense of helping kids get free digital library cards that the Brooklyn Public Library is offering to all teenagers in the United States.

She helped her students apply for those library cards because her school is restricting what teenagers are allowed to read.

PEN America says that banning books has zoomed to heights their organization has never recorded before, and they were founded in 1923 to track and combat book banning.

I think it goes without saying that critical thinking necessary to democracy is not possible without free and open access to books and library.

When libraries begin to be seen as the enemy, like conservatives are seeing them in the United States today, democracy is in grave danger.