The new censorship …

… US libraries report spike in organised attempts to ban books in schools | Books | The Guardian. (Hat tip, Rus Bowden.)

“It’s a volume of challenges I’ve never seen in my time at the ALA – the last 20 years. We’ve never had a time when we’ve gotten four or five reports a day for days on end, sometimes as many as eight in a day,” says ALA director Deborah Caldwell-Stone.