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Libraries Clearing Shelves Through 'Equity-Based' Book Weeding

Libraries Clearing Shelves Through 'Equity-Based' Book Weeding

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Sep 21, 2023
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The Diary of a Young Girl by Holocaust victim Anne Frank, the massively popular Harry Potter series, and the Newberry Medal-winning novel Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry about racial conflict in 1930s Mississippi are some notable examples of books that 10th grader Reina Takata can no longer find in her public high school library in Ontario, Canada. Why not…

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