Many, if not most, ebook platforms are adversarial to the health of libraries and intellectual freedom. One of the larger ebook platform companies is Clarivate so I want to use it for an example of how its business practices increasingly harm libraries.
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Sometimes we see headlines in the news about a book being challenged at a library. People from different perspectives might see the content of the book or other aspects of it as threatening or inappropriate. Understanding these challenges and forming responses is essential to our work as librarians in advocating and supporting intellectual freedom. Now, the work to track this information will receive more coordinated support. Both the Canadian Federation of Library Associations and the Centre for Free Expression announced that they would work together to maintain a joint library challenges database.
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