While the drumbeat of news stories of libraries and schools relocating or removing books continues, it’s important to remember that librarians have …
Conversations about censorship and book bans tend to exclude the voices of the very population they claim to protect: young people. Now a rising …
Publication date: November 2025 Source: The Journal of Academic Librarianship, Volume 51, Issue 6 Author(s): Janet Hyunju Clarke, Chris Kretz, …
Despite measures to continue operations and preserve pending contracts with libraries, the book distributor Baker & Taylor (B&T), a longtime…
In 2023—as book challenges, relocations, and removals in the state’s public and school libraries were reaching unprecedented levels—16-year-old Iris…
Banned Books Week takes place October 5–11. This year’s theme is “Censorship Is So 1984. Read for Your Rights.” 1982 Year that ALA held its first …
Three years ago, after a difficult state legislative session in Texas that aimed to restrict access to books and disparage the work of librarians, I…
Publication date: November 2025 Source: The Journal of Academic Librarianship, Volume 51, Issue 6 Author(s): Caroline Ilako, Joyce M. Bukirwa, Elena…
Volume 57, Issue 3, July–September 2025, Page 247-256.
