Trump dismisses the librarian of the Carla Hayden congress and other library updates
To say that many things have happened in the land of the library would be a raw and the raw and Between the dismissal of the librarian of the Carla Hayden congress, an update of the Imls prosecution, and the South Carolina and the Utah prohibiting more books throughout the state, there is a lot to unpack. So let’s jump.
Trump vs libraries
Censorship updates
- A new study examines the impact of books on the consumption of prohibited books. You can Read the full study here.
- The state of American civic education.
- Lambda Literary has published a declaration on the prohibitions of books: “We will not remain in place while a draconian administration seeks to suppress freedom of expression, to derail inclusion and to mitigate queer joy. Instead, we will do what they fear the most – what we have always done. We are screaming even stronger, even write Queer-Er, read even deeper, we are still celebrating. With joy, we will resist.
- Y Author Malinda lo requests, “Why is sex so scary to book banners?”
- We have marked measures to close the state library … for the moment.
- This Texas bill would criminalize the sale of “obscene” books. Not just having them in schools and libraries. Sell them. And please note that I put the greatest frightening quotes around the word “obscene” because these books are not obscene.
- Texas voters punished books of books during the ballot boxes.
- A beloved bookstore Pensacola, Fl Faced with the reaction after deleting the LGBTQ +titles.
- A bill in North Carolina prohibiting books with sexual descriptions of school libraries adopted the Chamber Committee.
- Southern Carolina has prohibited 10 other books from all public schools across the State.
- Teenage vogue Profile the group of students of South Carolina Who successfully fought against books for books in Beaufort, SC.
- Alabama Public Library Service Board Member Amy Minton wants to prevent children from reading books with transgender characters.
- “A confrontation of full cultural war is scheduled for Thursday in MontgomeryWhere the Board of Directors of Alabama Public Library Service (APLS) will face a host of speakers that increases – now at 37 years old and climbing – on the fate of funding from the Fairhope public library and an animated battle on what describes as content `sexually explicit ”. “”
- The County Library of Crawford (AR) Pouchera the invoice For a trial on the segregation of the LGBTQ +children’s book library.
- “The Northern Dakota Chamber challenged the recommendation of a previous committee and adopted a bill on Monday, April 14 to demand that school and public libraries hide equipment with the” obscene “content of minors.” The bill is now moving to the governor’s office.
- The Elizabeth School District (CO) is again under the court order To return 19 pounds “very sensitive” to the shelves of the library.
- Utah has prohibited its 18th book throughout the state of public schools.
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