Caustic fights over which books belong on the shelves have put librarians at the center of a bitter and widening culture war. Martha Hickson, a librarian, said that when book ban attempts turned into ...

According to the nonprofit free speech advocacy group PEN America, there have been nearly 16K book bans in U.S. public schools, libraries since 2021.

The fight against book bans is entering a new phase, as the number of bans plummets but concerns grow that librarians and teachers, looking to stay out of the fray, are self-censoring. Data shows a ...

Librarians and educators across the country are grappling with threats to the information they provide to their communities — and Kansas City is no exception. In the most recent meeting of the Kansas ...

For months, Carolyn Harrison and a small band of activists have been setting up folding tables with an array of what they call "bad books" outside the public library in Idaho Falls, Idaho. As Harrison ...

Public libraries in Tennessee have begun to shut down as they carry out an order from state officials to remove children’s ...

Each year we try to come up with new ways to serve the community beyond books and materials, and this year was no exception.

Standing up to political decisions that we disagree with often seems too difficult to put into action. We might ask ourselves, where do I start? Will what I do make any difference? One public school ...

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