Updates from around the world, including Singapore's pop-up Star Wars Library and the reopening of Johannesburg City Library ...

Banned Books Week Youth Honorary Chair Iris Mogul discusses starting a book club and her work with the National Coalition ...

Here's how a few notable figures American Libraries covered have reflected on advocacy, diverse stories, and censorship-free ...

Despite measures to continue operations and preserve pending contracts with libraries, the book distributor Baker & Taylor will shutter.

The pop-up Star Wars Library at Singapore's Changi Airport.

A National Coalition Against Censorship and Brooklyn Public Library workshop helps young people become intellectual freedom advocates.

Tiwanna Nevels, assistant state librarian at State Library of North Carolina in Raleigh, in the Big Chair at the 2025 ALA Annual Conference, holding a sign that says I Believe in the Freedom to Read ...

I am a school librarian. My community supports the school library, and students are active library users. At the same time, rhetoric from the 2023 legislative session and in the years since have shown ...

The removal was done in transgression of the library board’s book reconsideration policy. The book’s catalog record also vanished. Local media outlets reported that the book was removed by our ...

In the decade since the Supreme Court upheld the implementation of the Children’s Internet Protection Act (CIPA), internet filtering has become a frequent practice in public libraries. It has also ...

On January 22, the American Library Association (ALA) announced the top books, digital media, video, and audiobooks for children and young adults—including the Caldecott, Coretta Scott King, Newbery, ...

The year 2023 was another record-breaker for book bans. The American Library Association’s (ALA) Office for Intellectual Freedom (OIF) documented 1,247 attempts to censor library books and other ...