“A lot of them removed many, many books, including classic literature and literature that regularly appears on the AP exams and prepares our students for college level coursework. We’re removing all ...

New House bills could make it harder to ban books in public and district libraries The bills would also limit requests to residents within a library’s service area. “You reall ...

Lauren Seegmiller, a longtime Denver Public Library employee, is a member of Denver Public Library Workers United. The union isn’t formally recognized by the city and hasn’t held a union election, but ...

The EdTech Revolution Has Failed. The fact that dozens of meta-analyses comprising thousands of calculated effect sizes has done little to quell excitement over digital technology ...

“I personally do not approve of these kinds of materials,” said June Matheny from Little Rock. “If a parent wants their children to see this, they want to indoctrinate them on what most of us do not ...

Graphic novel is a terrible term. It is never used with any kind of precision. The three graphic novels most non-nerds are likely to have encountered are Maus, Persepolis, and Fun Home, none of which ...

In June, the U.S. National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) gave employees a presentation and tech demo called “AI-mazing Tech-venture” in which Google’s Gemini AI was presented as a tool ...

Hidden library in U.P. woods reveals innermost thoughts of visitorsFor decades, cabins in the Porcupine Mountains have offered campers a notebook in which to express themselves. Thousands of them have ...

Anti-censorship advocates have joined the book publisher Penguin Random House in condemning a Texas county that reclassified an account of European settlers’ colonization of Indigenous Americans as ...

already have a cure: fighting for the freedom to read. Stories allow us all to give meaning to the world around us and to envision something better.

Let me (re)introduce myself. I am Stephen Karlinchak, aka Conan the Librarian. I started working in the Post-Gazette’s morgue/information center/library way back 1990, before some of my co-workers ...

Decades of mismanagement and financial neglect have turned the New York State Museum, a trove of national treasures, into a dreary institution.