Nashville Public Library launches ‘Freedom to Learn’ marketing campaign

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (WTVF) — It is a subject that's taken maintain in Tennessee: books like "Maus" or "Walk Two Moons" have been pulled from shelves.

While those books may be banned from some faculties, there is nonetheless elsewhere you can find them.

"Our job is just to ensure that if you want it, it is right here for you," stated Public Data Officer for the Nashville Public Library, Ed Brown.

"'Maus' is all checked out right now," said Brown. "So we acquired extra copies on order however as soon as word received round about what happened in McMinn County, we obtained loads of holds."

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

"Lots of people do not need to read these books; they do not need their children to must read these books, or compelled to learn these books, and that's fine," said Brown. "But there are loads people who do, and we wish to be there for the people who do need to learn these materials."

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

"We all watch the TV shows that we like; we all watch the totally different sports activities or root for the totally different teams we're a part of," stated Brown. "Books are not any totally different."

The objective is to get the 5,000 library cards within the palms of latest sign-ups this month.

"We're not making an attempt to be a push back — a force pushing back towards these decisions — we need to be an alternative to say, if you may not have the ability to get it there... you may get it right here," mentioned Brown.

The restricted version library playing cards can be found as long as supplies final.