Illustration by Ariel Aberg-Riger
Perspective
The Fight for the American Public Library
Library boards, school boards and legislatures are becoming battlegrounds in a push to censor books. Communities are fighting back.
National Library Week in the US comes amid a period of turmoil for libraries, as efforts to censor books intensify. Visual storyteller Ariel Aberg-Riger explores the threats libraries face, their historical context and how activists are mobilizing to protect a diversity of thought.
For more on how libraries came to be a critical piece of social infrastructure, read her History of the American Public Library.