This week, we learned 21 states are eager to dismantle your First Amendment Rights. It should be bigger news.

Policy can be a powerful tool when fighting censorship in bookstores, libraries, and other places communities rely on to access information. Join experts in building and implementing policies for book...

Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer opens ALA's 2025 Annual Conference in Philadelphia with a discussion of her young adult memoir, True Gretch.

Twenty-four percent of school librarians have been harassed this past year over books or displays in their library. That’s according to a recent SLJ survey, which found the rate even higher among high...

Join us for the People’s Town Hall in Michigan’s 7th Congressional District with Senator Elissa Slotkin and Congresswoman Kristen McDonald Rivet on Friday, June 6th to tell your stories about how you ...

Podcast Episode · School Librarians United with Amy Hermon · 05/16/2025 · 1h 15m

No one should be consistently attacked for doing their job as a schoo… Michelle Vanallsburg needs your support for Legal Fees for Librarian Christine Beachler

Members of Congress, authors, and librarians express their anger over Hayden's removal.

A bill to restrict or ban student access to some books puts New Hampshire smack in the middle of a major battle in America's culture wars.

Lawsuit argues that culling library books prevents children from learning about health, hygiene, biology and abuse

Stressed? What better way to get away from it all, without the stress of airports, ferries, traffic jams, or any other form of transport, than through a good book?

Political tensions are threatening the future of the largest freshwater ecosystem on Earth.

Some of the  most popular posts of all time on this blog are the 5 Kinds of Nonfiction book lists I first published in early 2018. When the ...

National Park Service staff have received talking points ordering them to describe layoffs as “workforce management actions” and to reassure visitors that changes resulting from the cuts won’t impede ...