Emily Knox

Book Banning in 21st-Century America With book banning increasing around America, this book breaks down how and why contemporary reading practices can lead to censorship.Requests for the redaction,…

Second edition out in November. www.bloomsbury.com/us/book-bann...

Visions of 2076 | American Libraries Magazine Library leaders discussed the future of the American Library Association in light of its approaching 150th anniversary.

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Mitigation of SARS-CoV-2 transmission at a large public university - Nature Communications Safely opening university campuses has been a major challenge during the COVID-19 pandemic. Here, the authors describe a program of public health measures employed at a university in the United States...

There was a 4-fold reduction in deaths in Champaign County because of the SHIELD program. I had no idea: "More importantly, Champaign County was the county with the greatest reduction in deaths, reducing mortality more than 4.3-fold over expected. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

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Trump Abruptly Fires Librarian Of Congress Carla Hayden Trump has abruptly fired Librarian of Congress Carla Hayden as the White House continues to purge the federal government of those perceived to oppose the president.

Trump abruptly fires Librarian of Congress Carla Hayden

Some Star Wars music. m.youtube.com/watch?v=ydIa...

My IMLS grant with @soltmann.bsky.social Shannon Oltmann as PI went to $0. www.instagram.com/reel/DIK_xeG...

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In Trump’s Washington, Words Become Weaponized (Gift Article) The previous administration’s progressive lexicon has been swept away, replaced by a new official language of a bureaucracy under fire from its own president.

Explore this gift article from The New York Times. You can read it for free without a subscription. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/11/u...

Teach the Struggle for Voting Rights To prepare for local and national elections in November, teach outside the textbook about voter suppression.

Our consolidated election is Tuesday, April 1. I voted early yesterday. Vote in each and every election! www.zinnedproject.org/news/teach-t...

Screenshot of a reddit post on r/fednews that reads: DOGE is at the Institue of Museum and Library Services right now, AM 03/20, to shut down the agency The Institute of Museum and Library Services is being raided by DOGE and the new Acting Director (also somehow DepSec of Labor) Keith Sonderling with the express intent to shut it down. Sonderling was sworn-in in the lobby of the office building (955 L'Enfant Plaza) and they are proceeding with quickly and quietly dismantling the agency. There is no major reporting on the death of IMLS. There are Deparment of Homeland Security personnel present - to bully a bunch of civil servants who administer grants to museums and libraries. IMLS offices are on the 4th floor of 955 L'Enfant. There is no media present to document this efficiency saving of .004% of the federal budget. Every library system in the country receives these grants. Museums in every state depend on them. Every penny disbursed is American tax dollars back in American communities. This is one of the 7 federal agencies offered up as a needless sacrificial lamb in the catastrophic resolution and last week's EO.

Screenshot in case the main post gets taken down

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my WIRED subscription renewal is coming up and I couldn't be happier to keep supporting them. Also I get the print magazines delivered, and grandmas were right, clipping out articles and giving them to people you love RULES.

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SEND AN EMAIL: Stop Trump's E.O. Attacking Federal Funding for Libraries We need your help TODAY to tell your governors and key members of the House and Senate that federal funding for libraries - the Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS) - needs to be preserved!

Trump signed an Executive Order attacking Federal Funding for Libraries.

Please send an email to your legislators and governors before it's too late!

action.everylibrary.org/emaileo2025 via @everylibrary.bsky.social

Understanding IMLS's “Shall” and “May” Language EveryLibrary Institute is a 501c3 organization that supports library funding in the United States.

Here’s an explainer re possible impacts to the Institute of Museum & Library Services (IMLS). It “enumerates which programs are "shall" programs and duties, meaning that they are mandated by Congress, and which programs are "may" programs, meaning that they are discretionary for IMLS”

Show Up For Our Libraries! By eliminating the only federal agency dedicated to funding library services, the Trump administration's Executive Order is cutting off at the knees the most beloved and trusted of American institutions and the staff and services they offer. ALA American Library Association. #ForOurLibraries

🚨NEW🚨: Donald Trump is attempting to strip away federal support for libraries. We will NOT let that happen.

Last night the President signed an order to gut the Institute of Museum & Library Services. But together, we know we can show up & defeat it.

Full EO: www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...

Asian Americans & Pacific Islanders | The United States Army U.S. Army Heritage Asian American & Pacific Islander Microsite | The United States Army

The Army just deleted without explanation its page about the 442nd “GO FOR BROKE” infantry regiment—the Japanese American WW2 unit that is the most decorated in US military history.

Archive is here:
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Page was here:
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Disgusting.

Went through the car wash listening to this today. It's the little things. on.soundcloud.com/Bvgg9khh5p2o...

This is not law. It couldn’t withstand legal scrutiny.

Don’t comply in advance university presidents. General counsel, don’t panic. Do law, not vibes.

YouTube video by Beyond Solitaire Beyond Solitaire Podcast 186: Emily Knox on Book Banning

A different, but timely, direction for the pod this week! @ejmknox.bsky.social youtu.be/9_a_YFFngvw

None of us can be sure what will “work.” You try multiple things and find your way in. Read some histories of the Civil Rights Movement by those who participated. They were never “sure” of what would work. Some campaigns fizzled out. But persistence, creativity, determination, and focus were key.

I Love Libraries There's never been a more important time to support our nation's libraries.

Libraries and library workers are defending the freedom to read every day. Will you stand with them? Become a Supporter of the American Library Association to protect access to books for future generations! ilovelibraries.org #ForOurLibraries

Is This Why Musk Keeps Using the Same Dozen Tech Micro-Bros for Each Takeover? Yesterday I did this post on the taxonomy of DOGE, who’s actually...

Is This Why Musk Keeps Using the Same Dozen Tech Micro-Bros for Each Takeover? talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/is-th...

a good example of how the world is getting dumber. the new politico playbook writer didn't know who FDR was until a reader told him about that whole "new deal" thing. this newsletter is read by every important person in DC.

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5 Calls Spend 5 minutes. Make 5 calls. Make your voice heard.

Calling your representatives can be scary but 5 Calls has scripts. I'm trying to call at least one person every other day. 5calls.org