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03/25/2025

We are profoundly disturbed by President Trump’s March 14th executive order which targets the Institute of Museum and Library Services. This action threatens essential funding for library programs and staff jobs that provide free access to information, educational opportunities, and digital resources—especially for underserved and rural communities.

Fight back here:

Trump’s Trying to Gut Libraries: Fight Back with ALA

06/12/2023

https://www.infodocket.com/2023/06/12/today-gov-j-b-pritzker-will-sign-bill-preventing-book-bans-in-illinois/

UPDATED POSTGov. Pritzker Signs Bill Making Illinois First State in the Nation to Outlaw Book Bans (via IL Gov Office) + Coverage From WBEZ Radio Watch a Recording of the Bill Signing —End Update— From NBC Chicago: Illinois Gov. J.B. Pritzker is slated to sign legislation on Monday that will pre...

04/05/2023

https://abcnews.go.com/US/texas-banned-books-ruling-judge/story?id=98303996

Books banned by leaders in one Texas county were ordered to be put back on the shelf, after a judge ruled in favor of residents suing the county.

02/24/2023

https://uniteagainstbookbans.org

We should trust individuals to make their own decisions. Raise your voice for everyone's freedom to read.

02/20/2023

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/02/14/books/review/library-public-local.html

The New York Times sent photographers to seven states to document the thrum and buzz in buildings once known for silence.

07/27/2022

https://www.artshub.com.au/news/news/discovery-of-ww1-graphic-novel-might-re-write-history-books-2566363/

A German cartoonist’s account of life in an Australian WWI internment camp is being claimed as the world’s first-known autobiographical graphic novel.

05/05/2022

WE’RE BACK IN PERSON!
Visit us at the Massachusetts Library Association conference on May 23 and 24. We’ll be doing demos and chewin’ the fat at booth 13 in the vendor hall. See you there.

02/15/2022

https://www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/childrens/childrens-industry-news/article/88487-texas-book-ban-prompts-school-librarians-to-launch-freadom-fighters.html

A group of Texas school librarians has organized Fighters, a social media campaign with the goal of supporting authors, teachers, librarians, and students in their pursuit of intellectual freedom.

01/27/2022

https://www.thedailybeast.com/tennessee-school-bans-art-spiegelmans-pulitzer-prize-winning-graphic-novel-maus/?via=twitter_page

The board cited the inclusion of the words “God Damn” and drawings of “naked pictures” in “Maus,” though the pictures are of mice.

12/07/2021

Would the objects in people’s hands now be phones instead of books?

Even amid the clamor of a city of millions, New Yorkers have always been able to escape into a good book.

03/15/2021

A little late to this story, but, WOW!
https://mymodernmet.com/little-free-library-tree-stump/?fbclid=IwAR3CTLt3MWh9yqu3mqExgRU-J6WYRO3yp7ZuldnuEYgPaSf1QEzZT9Z7CBk

Instead of completely removing the dead tree, she gave it new life as a free tree library.

01/21/2021

The Library of Congress Magazine’s latest issue focuses on the “Art of the Book.” Check out the “book” on the cover!https://www.loc.gov/lcm/pdf/LCM_2021_0102.pdf