Censorship
School and public librarians struggle with how to handle the books of Bill Cosby, as well as authors Sherman Alexie, Jay Asher, and James Dashner, who have been accused of sexual harassment.
Awards, a grant opportunity, and the chance for students to ask Ken Burns about the Vietnam War.
A poem, deemed offensive, racist, and Islamophobic, was removed from an exhibit at the library at the Aurora (IL) Public Library.
The ALA Office for Intellectual Freedom tracked 354 challenges to library, school and university materials and services in 2017, and Monday released its annual list of Top 10 Most Challenged Books.
In anticipation of the Top 10 Challenged Books for 2017 announcement on Monday, April 9, we've compiled the reviews of last year's most challenged titles.
The ALA's Office of Intellectual Freedom will release the top 10 most Frequently Challenged Books from 2017 on Monday, April 9. While we wait, let's look back at those that made the list in years past.
School librarians find themselves in the middle of the debate about arming educators. They're sharing their concerns, which have implications in the national discussion about gun control and school violence.
CBLDF and the NCAC are publishing a free, downloadable comic by Kai Texel, just in time for National School Walkout on March 14 and the March for Our Lives on March 24.
One mother accuses a librarian of "stunting her daughter's intellectual growth," while another says lack of policing child's book choices gave her son nightmares.
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