When I took the role of head librarian at a public high school five years ago, I was excited about the possibilities. My previous experiences at middle and elementary schools were meaningful, but high ...

The South Carolina Board of Education is scheduled to meet April 1 to consider removing these 10 books from school libraries statewide, as recommended by a committee of some of its members. Book ...

Debates over school library books that have overtaken school board meetings across the country have thrust a generally (and sometimes literally) quiet corner of American public schools into the ...

The Syosset High School Library Learning Commons received a “Certified Sustainable” recognition from the Sustainable Library Certification Program. “We are honored to have earned the Sustainable ...

My daughter just finished “Charlotte’s Web.” She didn’t like it. Something about realising the fate of farm pigs. “They were going to turn Wilbur into bacon, mummy!” she cried… as I was cooking her ...

A bill to make it harder to remove books from public school libraries cleared its first legislative hurdle Monday night. After a three-hour debate, members of the Senate Education Committee approved ...

Almost two thirds of library staffers think no topic should be off limits when it comes to library books, at a time when thousands of book titles about LGBTQ+ characters, race, and racism, and those ...

In September 2021, protesters ambushed the board meeting of the New Jersey school district where I have worked as a high school librarian since 2005. The protesters railed against “Gender Queer,” a ...

On Nov. 8, two members of a Virginia school board called for a book burning. During a board meeting that evening, the Spotsylvania County Public School Board unanimously ordered its school libraries ...