The Latest Breaking News from Libraries

Judge rules that law banning school libraries and classrooms from carrying books depicting sex acts had been applied unconstitutionally

The Supreme Court is hearing arguments in a major legal fight over the $8 billion a year the federal government spends to subsidize phone and internet services in schools, libraries and rural areas, in a new test of federal regulatory power

It comes after culture secretary Lisa Nandy announced the £270 million Arts Everywhere Fund in February.

On March 14, 2025, the Trump administration issued an executive order that called for the dismantling of seven federal agencies “to the maximum extent consistent with applicable law.” They ranged from the United States Agency for Global Media, which oversees Voice of America, to the Minority Business Development Agency.

There has been outrage over Transport for London’s decision to remove those mini station libraries, writes Zoe Williams, but let’s not rush to call it ‘health and safety gone mad’

Grants for agencies and offices will be ‘eliminated to the maximum extent consistent with applicable law,’ executive order states

TfL had ordered the libraries’ removal for fire safety reasons outlined by the LFB - but Mayor says he is hoping for ‘very swift announcement of a U-turn’

Book lovers said that TfL had removed ‘the one bit of joy in a commute’

Senate Bill 13 would create school library advisory councils largely made up of parents. It would give school boards, rather than librarians, the final say over new books.

The authors of a picture book about two male penguins raising a chick together argue excluding their book from school libraries violates their free speech rights.

The Master of Sarum bible was saved after a campaign by Friends of the Nations’ Libraries FNL, and a global fundraising appeal by The Independent