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Boston Public Library, NYPL, and Seattle Public Library reveal their hottest books in 2024.
Censorship Updates
The 12 months in anti-book ban legal guidelines and what they really imply.
College boards tied up by e book bans face harassment and wrestle to handle different points (which is precisely the purpose for e book banners.)
“[New Hampshire] Gov. Chris Sununu has withdrawn his choice for state librarian over concerns about the nominee’s public opposition to book censorship.” Librarians’ opposition to censorship is knowledgeable hazard, apparently. What a spineless act of cowardice.
“A federal judge is recommending that [the Escambia County School Board in Florida] enter into a settlement with those suing it for book banning, citing how it’s spending hundreds of thousands of taxpayer dollars to cover legal fees.”
“Do school libraries still carry obscene or highly sexual content? A new bill proposed in the Pennsylvania House of Representatives would look to not only answer that question but remove any existing pieces.” Y’all…faculty libraries have by no means carried obscene content material, and these payments will not be solely stoking manufactured outrage, however threatening educators and librarians.
South Carolina lawmakers have pre-filed a library funding invoice which mandates that libraries have to limit entry to sure books or danger dropping funding.
“A state Senator said she wants tighter restrictions on access to pornographic materials in Missouri charter schools and digital library catalogs.” Please see my rant concerning the proposed invoice in Pennsylvania, and apply it right here as nicely.
1,100 books have been banned from faculty libraries in Tennessee as districts adjust to the state’s Age-Acceptable Supplies Act.
Saydel Neighborhood College District in Iowa is pulling 21 books from library cabinets “for review.”
Books & Authors within the Information
Ooof…Slate didn’t have a optimistic response to Kristin Hannah’s The Ladies.
Award Information
The Nationwide Ebook Critics Circle is releasing its longlists for the primary time in its 50-year historical past.
Bookish Curiosities & Miscellaneous
10 life classes for adults from kids’s classics.
Drama within the coloring e book neighborhood and why it issues.