Americans last year challenged more book titles than ever before, according to a new report by the American Library Association’s Office for Intellectual Freedom. More than 4,000 unique titles were ...

Sarah Polkinghorne has received funding from the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada. She has worked as a Collection Strategies Librarian at the University of Alberta, and is a ...

Social media's favorite librarian has transitioned into a career of book advocacy. Social media’s favorite librarian Mychal Threets has immersed himself in a career of book advocacy amid the decline ...

Amber Frey was at a City Council meeting in Prattville, Alabama, a suburb of Montgomery with about 40,000 people, listening as parents expressed concerns over books at their public library. Something ...

Librarians have been encouraged or even directed to remove books that include LGBTQ+, Black, Latino and Indigenous characters or themes or history from their collections. Credit: Harkim Wright ...

Mychal Threets believes there’s something for everyone at their local library, and he’s been on a mission to prove it. The former Solano County, Calif. Library supervisor — who in four years has ...

It’s never a good thing when your boss calls you at 3:30 pm on a Friday. I was commuting home, engrossed in the audiobook of The Reappearance of Rachel Price, thankful for the distraction after an ...

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 ...

Georgetown High School is threatening to fire its librarian after she refused to pull more than 150 books from shelves and the catalog based on vendor ratings. In January, the Georgetown district's ...

Amanda Jones never thought of herself as a controversial person. A beloved librarian in a small, tight-knit South Louisiana community, she’d earned numerous awards for her commitment to education over ...

Affirmative defenses protect educators from arrest and frivolous lawsuits over books or materials judged obscene by anyone in the community, writes Sara Stevenson. Removing these defenses can have ...