Public Libraries

How Karen Jensen and Kathryn King designed a DEI course for staff at the Fort Worth (TX) Public Library.

The play about the Salem witch trials presents a moral dilemma, but it's another canonical work centering the white, Christian, male perspective. Here are suggestions for discussion and alternate works.

Challenging old classics is the literary equivalent of replacing statues of racist figures.

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. 

These fiction and nonfiction titles nourish the body, soul, and imagination.

Many young people don't know what the Holocaust is. To help, here is a sampling of titles recommended by the Sydney Taylor Book Award Committee.

These fiction, poetry, and nonfiction titles will engage casual readers and hip-hop aficionados alike.