Welcome to your guide to intellectual freedom and privacy at ALA Annual Conference & Exhibition 2025, June 25 – 29! With unceasing censorship attempts in our communities and legislative attacks from t...

Hours after the State of the Union address, House republicans introduced legislation banning LGBTQ+ books from public schools nationwide.

Librarians across the U.S. examine how restrictions on library content are shaping communities.

Are library books considered "government speech?" Can a public library ban LGBTQ+ books? Seven book censorship court cases to watch in 2026.

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ALA actively advocates and educates in defense of intellectual freedom—the rights of library users to read, seek information, and speak freely as guaranteed by the First Amendment. Intellectual freedo...

In order to ban books from its libraries, New Braunfels Independent School District has just closed its libraries to middle and high schoolers.

The average age of the most banned books in America is higher than the young people those bans seek to "protect."

Print these free bookmarks to help engage your friends, family, and community in the fight against book bans.