The American Library Association Releases ‘Book Résumés’ for Banned Books

The American Library Association Releases ‘Book Résumés’ for Banned Books

Feb 21 2024

The American Library Association’s Unite Against Book Bans initiative has unveiled a new free resource—a collection of “book résumés.”

Created in collaboration with dozens of publishers, Unite Against Book Bans book résumés are easy-to-print documents that summarize a banned book’s significance and educational value, including a synopsis, reviews from professional journals, awards, accolades, and more. The book résumés also include information about how a title has been successfully retained in school districts in the face of demands to censor it. ALA officials said that the PDFs can be downloaded and printed for easy sharing with administrators, book review committees, and the public at local school and library board meetings…

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