Nashville Public Library launches ‘Freedom to Read’ campaign

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (WTVF) — It is a matter that is taken hold in Tennessee: books like "Maus" or "Stroll Two Moons" have been pulled from cabinets.

Whereas those books might be banned from some faculties, there's nonetheless some other place you could find them.

"Our job is just to ensure that if you would like it, it is here for you," said Public Info Officer for the Nashville Public Library, Ed Brown.

"'Maus' is all checked out right now," mentioned Brown. "So we got extra copies on order however as quickly as phrase got around about what occurred in McMinn County, we got lots of holds."

Those are just a few of the two million different supplies on the Nashville Public Library.

"A lot of people do not want to read these books; they do not need their youngsters to must learn these books, or forced to learn these books, and that's superb," said Brown. "However there are rather a lot people who do, and we wish to be there for the people who do wish to learn these materials."

And if you want to make your love for these materials known, what better means than together with your library card? The 5,000 limited edition playing cards for the campaign say "I learn banned books."

"All of us watch the TV exhibits that we like; we all watch the totally different sports or root for the totally different groups we're a part of," mentioned Brown. "Books aren't any totally different."

The objective is to get the 5,000 library cards in the arms of new sign-ups this month.

"We aren't trying to be a push again — a pressure pushing again against these selections — we need to be an alternative choice to say, if you could not be able to get it there... you will get it here," said Brown.

The restricted version library playing cards are available as long as provides final.