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This is what community looks like! Wyoming’s Book Banning Bill, HB10, FAILED to advance tonight after not being introduced by the deadline. I am so relieved and grateful. I hope this victory can give others a little hope in difficult times. We fight on, together. #fReadom
The District Court Judge found in favor of the plaintiffs and upheld First Amendment rights in the library.
The state wasted no time appealing to the 11th Circuit arguing that our taxpayer funded libraries are their speech, not the People’s (and 21 other states agree).
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Dorothy Porter was a librarian at Howard University where she took a small collection of donated materials by and about Black Americans and curated it for 40 years into the 180,000 item Moorland-Spingarn Research Center. #BlackHistoryMonth
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“The FLDOE’s own report shows that during the last school year, literary classics and widely acclaimed modern works…were removed even from libraries serving students in grades 9-12. If enacted, HB 1119 will only accelerate this trend and further narrow the range of ideas on school library shelves.”
Effie Lee Morris was another public librarian and educator who provided materials and guidance for blind children. She was a children's rights advocate and wrote the original selection criteria for the Coretta Scott King Award. #BlackHistoryMonth
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The US is spending more on neo-internment camps than it is on schools for lower income and special needs families
ICYMI: "Investment in libraries is investment in women."
Read Kirsten MacQuarrie's full Comment piece below 👇 #BookSky
Teachers! Librarians! Writers!
The Act of Writing and the Rise of AI
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#edusky #nonfiction #kidlit #TLsky #Skybrarians #SchoolLibraries @steamteambooks.bsky.social
We are honored to announce that THE LIBRARIANS has been nominated for a Cinema For Peace Dove for “Best Political Film of the Year”! We are grateful that this important organization recognizes the superheroes in the Freedom to Read movement and our Librarians Without Borders impact campaign.
Books don't tell readers who they personally are or who they are supposed to be. They do show readers a variety of characters. Implicit in that is this: "Here are some ways of being." Kids books aren't altering your kid to be someone new. They are simply showing them parts of humanity.
Every country needs to be following Finland's lead here. Media literary skills are going to be crucially important in the age of AI, where knowing what's real and what's not is going to be increasingly difficult
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It's the national year of reading in the uk in 2026. Instead of asking "why don't kids read any more", ask "how can I help them find the stories (and non fic) they will fall in love with". Less "get off my lawn whippersnappers" and more "come, sit on the lawn, here's a comic".
NEW: How many books did you read this year? If it was more than 2, congrats: you read more than the median American.
Read on for way more @today.yougov.com polling from me on America's book-reading habits in 2025. 1/
Setting goals is an excellent way to jumpstart action. Are you ready for 2026? A new year is the perfect time to recommit to protecting access to books and standing up for intellectual freedom. Let’s make 2026 a year of courage, clarity, and collective action. 💛📖
#FreedomToRead #StopBookBans
Essay: In my childhood home, we struggled, surviving on what other people didn’t want or need, writes Meaghan Shields. But my mom was the most generous person I knew. And that generosity extended to me — in the form of books.
“Just hang in there, keep reading, and stay angry.” -Alice Wong, rest in power
🎉 “ALA welcomes the good news that IMLS is restoring all federal grants that had previously been terminated. This means that libraries across the country will be able to resume vital services for learning, imagination, & economic opportunity." #librarysky www.ala.org/news/2025/12...
Maybe nobody in the great big world cares about this.
But the public libraries in tiny Jefferson County in Northern Appalachia were in danger of losing their tax funding thanks to right-wing book banners. And we won. The library's funding is safe!!!!!
You want your library's doors open? - Funding
You want more open hours? - Funding
You want better pay? - Funding
You want bigger collections? - Funding
You want more services? - Funding
BUT - Funding = Politics
#library #libraries #libraryfunding #libraryadvocacy #librarianship
POV: The new singer of the Reading Rainbow theme song and the new host of Reading Rainbow meet for the first time in Canada 🥹📚🌈
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Mychal and Bukola meet for the first time! They joyfully dance to the Reading Rainbow theme song, sung by Bukola ✨
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“Trying to keep up with all the changes in policy and what is considered ‘appropriate’ reading material for students is like bailing water out of a sinking ship. … This hurts my heart to the core.” - Kristen Rusnak, a school librarian in Florida
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The Defense Department banned nearly 600 books from schools on military bases — but in a win for free speech, a federal judge just ordered those books back to the shelves.
“Why sharing books is different
from sharing screens
When we’re sharing a book, we go at the
child’s pace and follow the child’s interest,
repeating words that may be new and
talking about the things that interest them”
To support parents and their children in making reading accessible “A local reading ecosystem needs partners like…children’s centres, family hubs, libraries
and health visitors” files.booktrust.org.uk/docs/documen...
In June, the NYC Legislature passed The Freedom to Read Act, a bill to protect school libraries and librarians from book bans.
Such legislation draws a critical line in the sand in an era of Project 2025, Moms for Liberty, and censorship.
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"When politicians order books off the shelves, they aren’t protecting kids—they’re silencing voices, narrowing choices, and undermining the very purpose of a public education," writes parent Darren Laustsen.
#BannedBooksWeek
From the Editorial Board:
Neuroscientists have found that when people read, their brains don’t just process words — they simulate the story world.
By contrast, social media rarely demands such deep simulation.
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