The Latest Breaking News from Libraries

A Florida public library system’s “I Read Banned Books” library cards are drawing concern from a Republican lawmaker who said the county agency is engaging in “a political stunt” with taxpayer money and warned it could generate financial retaliation by the state.

Texas would expand what can be defined as sexually explicit material or potentially harmful to children in order to ban books from public and charter school libraries, under a bill given final passage by the state Senate on Tuesday night and sent to Republican Gov. Greg Abbott

Priority bills that died include a 10-year minimum sentencing for gun-related crimes, a ban on “critical race theory” at public universities and LGBTQ-related legislation. While the bills may be dead, lawmakers have a limited time to attach their ideas to legislation that is still alive.

Disney is reportedly removing over 20 TV shows, including some fan favorites, from its Disney Plus and Hulu libraries.

A new lawsuit against a Florida school board marks a “first-of-its-kind challenge to unlawful censorship”.

Officials in Escambia County, Fla., removed 10 books from school libraries and restricted access to more than 150 others. Writers' advocacy group PEN America calls the lawsuit the first of its kind.

The newly crowned Queen mingled with pupils, teachers and children's authors at Shirehampton Primary School as she launched the Coronation Libraries initiative

She was there to help create a 'dream library'

Titles related to the 1989 Tiananmen Square massacre and certain political figures have been pulled from shelves