The program began as a response to "increasingly coordinated and effective efforts to remove books from public and school libraries across the nation."
The Boston Public Library has joined with two other municipal library systems to offer up full access to its collection of digital books and audiobooks to adults and teens across the nation to counteract the record rise in attempted book bannings.
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