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Marvin DeBose is a member of a national book committee called “In The Margins.”
PHOTO: KELLY SHANNON ’24/ THE HAWK

Libraries become battlegrounds for book bans

Allie Miller September 14, 2022

In school and public libraries across the country, efforts to ban books are on the rise. For Christi Bukar, executive director of the Pennsylvania Library Association, a statewide chapter of the American...

GRAPHIC: GABRIELLA GUZZARDO ’23/THE HAWK

Libraries will never die

Rachael Carpus May 4, 2022

Spend time at your local library As a lowly circulation assistant, my work at the front desk of my local public library isn’t glamorous. I don’t have a Masters of Library Science degree (though...

GRAPHIC: RACHEL KWOK ’22/THE HAWK

Rise in book bannings and challenges

Brigid Bonner February 16, 2022

In April 2020, author George M. Johnson published their New York Times bestselling book “All Boys Aren’t Blue: A Memoir Manifesto.” The critically acclaimed memoir is Johnson’s personal account...

The childrens section of the Friends of Walnut St. West Library. PHOTO: DIMETRI WILLIAMS ’19/THE HAWK

Financial strain in Philadelphia public libraries

Carly Calhoun March 19, 2019

Lack of funding hurts libraries and their communities Branches of the Free Public Library of Philadelphia are still feeling the effects of budget cuts from the 2008 recession, affecting their...

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