Lafayette residents, activists and library leaders butted heads Wednesday at a public meeting on the recent controversial book display ban that went into effect in early June. Previously the library ...
Weeks after the library director told branch managers days before Pride Month not to erect displays singling out any portion of the population, Lafayette Parish Library Board of Control members have ...
Suffield First Selectman Colin Moll was criticized this week by a handful of residents for his decision to remove a children’s book about pronouns from a display at Kent Memorial Library. In addition ...
LaVonnia Moore spent 15 years serving her Pierce County, Georgia, community, including five years as manager of the local library. She thought she knew what libraries were for: fostering curiosity, ...
Facing investigation by New York State human rights officials, the Smithtown library board is scheduled Thursday night to vote on rescinding a decision made earlier this week to remove Pride Month ...
A Kansas City, Missouri, area library system has banned Pride displays in its children’s and teens’ sections. As Kansas City public radio station KCUR reports, the decision by the Mid-Continent Public ...
The Mid-Continent Public Library has removed adult books, including parenting books, from the teen's and children's sections to comply with Missouri's new library rules. The new policies are a ...
Book displays that focus on particular segments of the population, such as those for Pride Month and Women's History Month, have been removed from one Louisiana library system, according to The ...
We live in a world where free speech is constantly under fire. From alleged censorship on social media to attacking someone for their opinions, it is hard to voice your beliefs in today’s world. One ...
Last week Lani Kawahara, who oversees the young adult section at Kauai’s largest library, set up her annual display to mark Banned Books Week, a national campaign that kicked off Sunday to spotlight ...
The Harold B. Lee Library organized a display of banned books on the first floor of the library for Banned Books Week, a campaign that celebrates literary freedom and draws attention to banned and ...
Last month, Quebec’s Trois-Rivières Library District installed an RFID-based system at its three libraries, in order to automate the return of books. The technology helps to eliminate the period of ...