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November 2023 Election Hot Take: It was a good night for libraries, a bad night for censorship
There’s no other way to look at it: the results of last night’s elections across the country broke decisively for libraries. EveryLibrary tracked 40 public library funding measures, and in 95% of them, voters approved the requests, often by wide margins. [See: Election Night 2023 Library Wrap-Up] SCHOOL BOARD ELECTIONS GO OUR WAY While all […]
When Accusations Against Books Meet the Actual Law
As we have seen repeatedly over the past two years, it is easy to make accusations against books and librarians. It takes little effort to fill out a materials challenge form alleging that books are obscene or pornographic. Anyone can step up to the microphone at a public meeting and share out-of-context excerpts from award-winning […]
Building Grassroots Support to Protect You and Your Library
As we all know too well, communities across the country are seeing a huge spike in book challenges and bans in our school and public libraries. Censorship is on the rise, and libraries and librarians are being personally attacked, threatened, and fired, while libraries are seeing their funding threatened unless they remove books written by […]
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