Whether it be graphic novels, young adult books or even DVDs, public libraries across the country have received complaints about various materials in their collections. In Longmont, Boulder and the ...

“We can’t just hope it doesn’t happen and not be prepared for it,” said panelist Val Edwards, library teacher leader at Madison (Wis.) Metropolitan School District (MMSD), to the majority school and ...

There were 1,269 documented demands to censor library books and resources in 2022, according to new data released by the American Library Association on Thursday morning. This is the highest number of ...

Many of these individual titles also appear on a 2024-25 report issued last October by PEN America, a separate group dedicated to free expression, which looked at book challenges and bans specifically ...

Amanda Vazquez (left), director at Dubuque County (Iowa) District Library, and Sukrit Goswami (right), director at Haverford Township (Pa.) Free Library, discuss how libraries can protect themselves ...

When Julie Milavec thinks back on the past 12 months, her sigh gets long and heavy, almost comically so. Not that there was anything funny about being director of the Downers Grove Public Library this ...

PORTLAND, Ore. (KOIN) — After setting record highs across the U.S. in 2022, the State Library of Oregon released a report Tuesday showing there have been more challenges to material in Oregon public ...

When the Crown Point Community Library underwent a building project at its Winfield branch, workers had to move the branch’s bookshelves. After they’d been moved, staff found books that had been ...