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to determine a user's location and allows them to freely access the exact books that have been banned in their local area. In May 2024, The Banned Book Club started a new social media campaign called, The Banned Book of the Week, where their curation team will select a new title every week to post
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Digital Public Library of America, fearing that the inclusion of the word 'public' would have the unintended consequence of giving local governments the excuse to reduce public library funding".
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will come. There is an ongoing dispute regarding so-called '
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