Brooklyn Public Library (BPL) has been providing opportunities for young people across the country to access banned books through their Books Unbanned program since 2022. Books Unbanned provides free digital cards to BPL’s full online collection for young people anywhere in the country. They’ve partnered with five other libraries nationwide–Boston Public Library, Long Beach Public Library, Los Angeles County Public Library, San Diego Public Library, and Seattle Public Library–which also offer their digital cards and collections, meaning that a teen in Idaho could access cards and materials to six world-class libraries for free.
In addition to digital cards, Books Unbanned offers numerous other opportunities for libraries nationwide to help protect the right to read. Among those is the Freedom to Read Teen Advocacy Toolkit, which provides 16+ hours of programming that libraries can use and adapt to educate and prepare young people in their literary advocacy. They also have a Digit...
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