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The fight for libraries, ‘the heart’ of democratic freedom

Libraries have become ‘battlegrounds for other political motivations,’ says Oxford’s Richard Ovenden. Those serious matters were described in a talk entitled Libraries as Defenders of Open Society that Ovenden gave at the Toronto Public Library in February 2023 as part of its Freedom to Read Week. 

https://www.cbc.ca/radio/ideas/libraries-richard-ovenden-1.6785115