New Yorkers! Have you contacted your governor today!?!?!?
02.03.2026 17:51 — 👍 12 🔁 8 💬 0 📌 0New Yorkers! Have you contacted your governor today!?!?!?
02.03.2026 17:51 — 👍 12 🔁 8 💬 0 📌 0We oppose HR 7661. We want all of our kids & teens to have the freedom to be themselves, but certain politicians try to hold onto power by putting us in boxes based on what we look like, where we’re from, or what our genders are and fuel divisions for political gain. We are tired of these games.
02.03.2026 17:54 — 👍 7 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
Honored to be included in the keynote lineup at Thrive conference supporting democratic values! This week: app.smore.com/n/8u1mq
02.03.2026 17:06 — 👍 7 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0And a reminder - libraries are for EVERY one in our communities. We care very much about the families we serve. 💕💕
27.02.2026 20:48 — 👍 10 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0H.R. 7661 is an ill-written, ill thought out, prejudicial and ill-conceived bill that should not move out of committee. Contact House committee members below, especially if you are from any of those states! (CA, PA, CT, NC, OR and more).
27.02.2026 20:45 — 👍 13 🔁 5 💬 0 📌 1
As hard as we are fighting, book bans are having an impact on the books being written and published. To put this another way, a very small number of well-funded people who don't write books, don't teach books, don't work in libraries are trying to decide what books are available for everyone else
27.02.2026 20:19 — 👍 107 🔁 85 💬 0 📌 3
ALA public Policy & Advocacy staff posing together in front of an ALA logo banner, holding signs that say "Show up for E-Rate" and "Fund Libraries"
From our team here in Washington, THANK YOU to every ALA member and advocate who showed up #ForOurLibraries in DC this week for #NLLD26!
As you might have been able to tell, we were thrilled to welcome you to the District and support your advocacy in Congress. We can't wait to see you next year!
We believe in libraries as a cornerstone of our communities. From elementary school libraries exciting kids about reading to small rural public libraries who are the heart of learning in their towns, to bustling high school libraries, to academic centers in universities. Libraries rock.
27.02.2026 19:20 — 👍 9 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0We appreciate our nation's libraries!
25.02.2026 19:07 — 👍 11 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 0
Lisa Varga speaking in a ballroom.
Slide that reads “Our Unified Front: From Every Corner to DC”
ALA’s Lisa Varga - the leader of the @librarypolicy.bsky.social team - reminds us at #NLLD26 that we do not need all the answers to be effective advocates.
“You’re already miles ahead” as information professionals.
We know that our advocates are prepared and excited to make the case for libraries.
As a leader you must first lead yourself. This KQ article will help you do that.
knowledgequest.aasl.org/self-leaders...
We are so happy that students get to express who they are, especially in Katy ISD, which has pulled over 100 LGBTQ titles from their libraries, blaming it on new state laws like this one. Now let's do the rest of Texas! #FReadom
24.02.2026 18:49 — 👍 8 🔁 6 💬 0 📌 0
We so much appreciate @aclutx.bsky.social @studentsengaged.bsky.social and others for their work on this lawsuit. Houston, Katy and Plano must now allow student GSA clubs, among other things! www.houstonpublicmedia.org/articles/edu...
24.02.2026 18:48 — 👍 7 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 1
The definition of "harmful" is deliberately vague.
The burden on librarians is deliberately immense.
The chilling effect on reading, but also on publishing, author events, bookshops, and more is COMING.
The purpose of the laws is to give the State power to incarcerate anyone M*GA doesn't like.
![Two people smile at the camera at the Public Library Association 2026 Conference. The text reads, "Find Your [Library] People. Advance registration rates end Feb. 20!" The event is scheduled for April 1-3 in Minneapolis. The website mentioned is placonference.org.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:q5qyswhppr7tiskw43xhcv7f/bafkreiaahut5yrukqj3zob36ckzdxjzrnjxqigleuxz3hs4nj3dimoa7nu@jpeg)
Two people smile at the camera at the Public Library Association 2026 Conference. The text reads, "Find Your [Library] People. Advance registration rates end Feb. 20!" The event is scheduled for April 1-3 in Minneapolis. The website mentioned is placonference.org.
Public library professionals, take note: advance rates for #PLA2026 end Friday, February 20.
Join us April 1–3 in Minneapolis for 100+ sessions, inspiring speakers, bestselling authors, and an exhibit hall packed with solutions.
Register now to save! https://www.placonference.org/registration
Libraries are information centers and information is power. @becalzada.bsky.social on her role as a library leader and as a #FReadom fighter in @thelibrariansfilm.bsky.social www.sacurrent.com/movies-tv/mo...
17.02.2026 20:23 — 👍 8 🔁 4 💬 0 📌 0
“Removing the books, rather it denies them access to materials that promote empathy and serve as a guide for their own lives during challenging and confusing times.”
16.02.2026 22:06 — 👍 48 🔁 14 💬 0 📌 2
Read BOOKS BY BLACK AUTHORS here’s a list of memoirs definitely worth reading
Defending the Freedom to Read means showing up for these voices, supporting libraries and educators, and speaking out when access to stories is threatened. Because the right to read includes the right to read stories that some would rather avoid.
This Black History Month, we celebrate Black voices and reaffirm the Freedom to Read. Protecting access to these stories means protecting the right of every reader to learn, reflect, and think for themselves.
#BlackHistoryMonth
Despite the lawsuit filed last month against its state sanctioned book banning law, Utah banned another book from all public schools in the state on Friday.
That book? Bag of Bones by @stephenking.bsky.social. It's the 23rd such statewide ban.
bookriot.com/utah-bans-23...
The current book ban movement is, at its core, a movement to defund the public good.
The necessary bigotries were a feature of that, not a bug.
Even in a red state, the Supreme Court recognized that a librarian has the right to sue for defamation or damage to their reputation. Thanks to Amanda Jones for her continued courage.
12.02.2026 17:36 — 👍 83 🔁 24 💬 0 📌 0
Great news for @librarianjones.com: “The appellate court said Jones has a right to argue that the comments ‘were knowingly false or made with reckless disregard of the truth, and caused Ms. Jones injury, including harm to her reputation, contempt, ridicule, anxiety, and emotional distress.’”
12.02.2026 13:20 — 👍 65 🔁 23 💬 0 📌 3
Happy Valentines Week fellow book lovers, enjoy! Feel free to screenshot our literary themed Valentines to send to your loved ones. And if you’d like the whole PDF to download and print, you can find it here: drive.google.com/file/d/1KzV_fTC6FfPgn-ZD6s7bJ0If-PtpSCw2/view?usp=drive_link❤️📖💕💌📚💘
12.02.2026 17:10 — 👍 27 🔁 22 💬 2 📌 5
Last year I made some Valentines for anti-book censorship advocates. Feel free to use and distribute as you see appropriate this year, too: buttondown.com/wellsourced/...
12.02.2026 17:21 — 👍 20 🔁 11 💬 1 📌 0New Mexico friends...
12.02.2026 16:35 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Delightful interview tonight with @kylelukoff.bsky.social and @raulthethird.bsky.social for Library Lovers week. Pure joy!
12.02.2026 02:39 — 👍 3 🔁 4 💬 0 📌 0
Everybody, do yourselves a favor and watch and share The Librarians, a phenomenal film about the librarian heroes putting everything on the line to keep books on shelves. @thelibrariansfilm.bsky.social youtu.be/ywQOCY-qDzE
11.02.2026 01:25 — 👍 57 🔁 34 💬 0 📌 1
Watching a really good documentary about the book bans going on in our country today and the brave professional librarians on the front lines - really eye-opening youtu.be/ywQOCY-qDzE?...
11.02.2026 02:25 — 👍 10 🔁 6 💬 1 📌 0Just finished watching The Librarians. It was excellent and terrifying.
11.02.2026 02:08 — 👍 5 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 0
These librarians are doing a fundamental critical service in ensure the 1st amendment rights to read whatever we want.
#Bookbans are UNAMERICAN!!
#Booksky
#library
@pbs.org
youtu.be/41lKGPOBag4?...