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When the Penn Meadows ballfields in North Liberty fill up with glove-toting kids, Nick Shimmin prepares the local library’s ...
Challenges to Kentucky public library books soared by 1,061% last year, rising from 26 incidents in 2023 to 302 incidents in 2024, according to a recently released state report.
ST. CHARLES COUNTY — A sweeping policy change could wrest decisions on removing books from library shelves away from librarians and give the authority to the district’s politically appointed ...
A woman was reunited with an old wedding photo of her grandparents getting married in Detroit in 1953. The photo was found inside a book being donated at a local Michigan library.
The decision to send excess books from the shuttered Yale-NUS College library for recycling is more than an “operational lapse”, says poet Daryl Lim.
The bill would require school districts to create a committee to identify library books containing sexual activity or “pervasively vulgar” content.
AUSTIN, Texas — A federal appeals court has ruled that Llano County's removal of books from a public library is constitutional. On Friday, the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth ...
Free Speech Fifth Circuit: Public Libraries May Select or Remove Books Based on Viewpoint Such removal doesn't violate the First Amendment, the Court holds by a 10-7 vote, because a public library ...
5th Circuit rules Texas library patrons have no First Amendment right to information The 10-7 ruling overturns a decades-old precedent barring the removal of library books for political reasons.
All but a few of the nearly 400 books that the U.S. Naval Academy removed from its library because they dealt with anti-racism and gender issues are back on the shelves after the newest Pentagon ...
The man reportedly posted videos of himself burning the books online in efforts to "cleanse" the library.