In a Maryland school library, empty shelves are about to get emptier While the nation has been focusing on book bans, some schools have gone without enough (noncontroversial) books. One elementary ...

The school board has argued it has authority to decide what books should be allowed and that a 2023 law (HB 1069) that set up a process for book challenges by members of the public helps shield it ...

Librarians across the country say they’ve become targets in the ongoing battles over books – but the attacks have escalated beyond just calls to remove materials from library shelves. Several ...

PUBLISHED: February 22, 2025 at 10:00 AM CST When the Crown Point Community Library underwent a building project at its Winfield branch, workers had to move the branch’s bookshelves.

Across the state, people pored over library shelves or reviewed online lists and complained about books they deemed inappropriate – mainly books with LGBTQ characters or people of color. Gov.

Tens of thousands of centuries-old books are being pulled from the shelves of a medieval abbey in Hungary in an effort to save them from a beetle infestation that could wipe out centuries of history.

Proposed Michigan law would shield LGBTQ books from being pulled off library shelves Updated: Nov. 26, 2024, 10:53 a.m. | Published: Nov. 21, 2024, 9:38 a.m.

In March 2023, U.S. District Judge Robert Pitman ordered 17 books returned to Kingsland library shelves while a citizen lawsuit against book banning proceeded.

Taking flagged books off the shelf or even relocating them to a different part of the library can open up the city to a lawsuit, she said. U.S. district courts across the country have ruled such ...

After the library made a Facebook post with book suggestions for Pride Month in July 2021, a wave of anti-LGBTQ+ sentiments resulted in a push to remove certain titles from the shelves.

Feb. 17, 2024Updated Sat., Feb. 17, 2024 at 9:01 p.m. The library inside Oxon Hill Elementary School in Prince George’s County, Md. MUST CREDIT: Theresa Vargas/The Washington Post By Theresa ...