At a time when some beloved novels have fallen under scrutiny and more and more titles are banned from shelves, Toronto Public Library is taking a stand for “intellectual freedom.”
The library’s newest collection, “the Book Sanctuary Collection,” aims to send one message to users of the publicly-funded system: TPL is a safe space for all stories and ideas.
“It’s never been more important to stand up and speak out for intellectual freedom, and to ensure voices, especially those of marginalized and equity-deserving communities, are not shut down,” librarian Vickery Bowles said in a statement to CTV News Toronto. Augustus Gloop in "Charlie and the Chocolate Factory” is no longer "enormously fat," just "enormous,” and the word "black" was removed from the description of the terrible tractors in the 1970s "The Fabulous Mr. Fox." The machines are now simply "murderous, brutal-looking monsters."
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