Voters in a conservative enclave within a blue state will decide whether to shutter the county's only library after staff refused to remove books on race, LGBTQ and sexual topics that some community ...

The book, “What Are Your Words,” was removed from display in the children’s section of the Kent Memorial Library in Suffield. Credit: Shahrzad Rasekh / CT Mirror This story has been updated. Ari, the ...

A Colorado woman was decluttering, when she found something that had belonged to her grandmother: “Shakespeare’s Life of King Henry the Fifth.” By Victor Mather When a copy of Shakespeare’s “Henry V” ...

Americans last year challenged more book titles than ever before, according to a new report by the American Library Association’s Office for Intellectual Freedom. More than 4,000 unique titles were ...

Book challenges in Kentucky public libraries rose 1,061% from 2023 to 2024. Daviess and Bourbon counties saw diverging library responses to censorship efforts. Statewide disputes over library content ...

A discussion of the legal issues related to book banning in public schools and public libraries, including pertinent debates, state law trends, cases addressing standing and constitutional ...

As the culture wars continue to roil American society, one battlefront has turned out to be local libraries. The American Library Association reported more than 9,000 challenges to library books were ...

TOLEDO, Ohio — Give a book (or another piece of physical media) a second life during the Friends of the Library 2025 book sale series. Friends of the Library, a non-profit that promotes the Toledo ...

PRESCOTT — It was raining that day. A small crowd had gathered. The funeral was about to begin. The casket was closed. “I just don’t want the kids to see her,” librarian Colleen Boyd said. Early this ...

The Nazis seized tens of thousands of books from the Jewish Theological Seminary in Budapest, but the works are making their way back, including one being returned in New York this week. By Catherine ...