#I help librarians handle book bans. Here’s why it’s getting worse.
“Book ban movements are shutting down important conversation, rather than encouraging diversity of thought and exposing kids to new lived experiences” (Photo by iStock) In 1987, I became a school librarian at a middle school in Maple Ridge, B.C. By the early 2000s, I was president of the Canadian School Libraries, or CSL, and I…