Link to list:
https://media.defense.gov/2025/Apr/04/2003683009/-1/-1/0/250404-LIST%20OF%20REMO...
Link to website above where the link is at:
https://www.navy.mil/Press-Office/Press-Releases/display-pressreleases/Article/4...
#Censorship + #BannedBooks = #FutureReadingGoals
Susanita 19 pages! 🤬 12h
ManyWordsLater I‘m having difficulty articulating to friends the difference because library curation and banning books. 12h
Riveted_Reader_Melissa Well if you curate out anything to do with racism, gender, feminism, or transgender…you maybe are not curating a collection on a specific topic but removing a complete topic. For instance….race books out, Mein Kampf in…you could say more war history related…. But also out as feminism books about the underground movement of women in Afghanistan….which was probably pretty important in a fairly recent war. So I think it‘s the how, why, & ⤵️![[tagged book]](https://image.librarything.com/pics/litsy_webpics/icon_taggedBook@3x.png)
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Riveted_Reader_Melissa ↪️ purpose. I am not a librarian, I should add. But I would think curating a collection is different from say removing from a library. My public library has the library, and a separate curated section on local history….but that does not mean they removed every book from the main library on any other subject. 12h
shortsarahrose @ManyWordsLater - I‘ll add, as a library worker/person with a masters in library science, collection development has more to do with building a collection that reflects a wide range of viewpoints on any given topic - even those that we may not personally agree with or that the majority of our community may not agree with. Censorship is removing or refusing to purchase items that don‘t align with a certain view. 11h
Riveted_Reader_Melissa And why on earth Maya Angelou needed to be cut, only makes sense if it‘s a military curated collection…. But I did not see any other books of American classics novels of that sort listed. Just hers. And I find it hard to believe there was only 1 classic literature book in the library. No Steinbeck for example.I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 11h
I Know Why the Caged Bird SingsRiveted_Reader_Melissa @shortsarahrose Thank you! I knew we needed a librarian! When in doubt, always ask a librarian. 11h
Riveted_Reader_Melissa @Susanita right! I had heard about it when it happened, but today was the first time I had seen a complete list. Very interesting what topics the removed books seemed to be centered around. And so nice they included the topics for each books, and I‘m assuming the rational for pulling them. 11h
ncsufoxes It‘s an odd collection of books, meaning it‘s kind of all over the place. A few repeated titles (some have different publication dates but some are repeated 2-3xs). There are only a few fiction books. I‘m surprised The 1619 Project wasn‘t on there. It is interesting to see what they find intimidating. My guess is whoever curated this list probably hasn‘t read one of these books. They probably used AI to generate the list. 10h
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