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Twenty-one releases to share during Asian American Pacific Islander Heritage Month or any time of year.

In majority-white regions, librarians are bringing diverse books to kids, even when their efforts meet with resistance. 

Some educators abandon teaching the Bard's work, while others update and enhance Shakespeare curricula.

The authors offer different takes on the literary canon in their keynote addresses. Read about that and other Summit highlights. 

Tackling a variety of topics important to school librarians and all educators, these presentations, discussions, and panels are available for viewing. 

Book about racism and antiracism and those by black creators are in high demand, for adults and children.

We need more titles to counter the single narrative in picture books: Police help everyone. Police catch bad guys. Police keep everyone safe.

More U.S. librarians are using this interactive programming model, in which human "books" speak with patrons about their life experiences.

Authors discussed their experience with soft censorship at “Not-Quite-Banned: Combating the Invisible Censorship of LGBTQIA+ Stories,” an ALA Midwinter panel.