The Latest Breaking News from Libraries

“The Bluest Eye” by Toni Morrison

Book bans in U.S. schools and libraries during the 2021-22 school year disproportionately targeted children’s books written by people of color – especially women of color – according to a peer-reviewed study we published. They also tended to feature characters of color.

A federal court recently said the Internet Archive is not protected by fair use doctrine.

And we’re watching more of it in public—buses, libraries, classrooms, and offices

Members of the community exchange seeds, cuttings and greenery – and leave with a sense of joy

Schools are full of extremely useful and valuable facilities. These include playing fields, play equipment, sandpits, netball courts, concert halls, libraries and even pools.

Students and faculty members at Harvard University have engaged in pro-Palestinian “study-in” protests at university libraries, as protests at other campuses nationwide have also begun to pull in teachers

"This fails the needs of citizens in favor of a weak sauce argument from the industry, and it's really disappointing"

Drag story hour is “nothing other than indoctrination and sexualisation of children”, claimed Sweden Democrats politician Jonathan Sager during a session of the local parliament in Kalmar, southern Sweden, in 2022. He was reacting to plans to organise a drag story hour event at the local library, where drag queens…

A Texas county has sparked outrage after moving a Native American history book to the fiction section of all public libraries.

Tens of thousands of titles, from dictionaries to Leonardo, are restricted across prisons – and its impact is palpable