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American Library Association Names 2022’s Most Banned Books | Smart News| Smithsonian Magazine
As book censorship soared, titles with LGBTQ themes were the most targeted By Teresa Nowakowski, Daily Correspondent, April 25, 2023 Maia Kobabe’s graphic novel Gender Queer: A Memoir documents Kobabe’s coming out as nonbinary and asexual. Since the book’s publication in 2019, readers have been regularly reaching out to Kobabe to express their appreciation for…
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Librarians push back against book-banning | Salon.com
“Book bans are about limiting kids’ freedom to read and teachers’ freedom to teach” By Kenny Stancil, Published May 12, 2022 5:00AM (EDT) The American Library Association, the American Federation of Teachers, and more than two dozen other organizations on Tuesday formed a coalition to fight the far-right’s record-breaking censorship barrage—wherein nearly 1,600 books were…
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Readers Share Their Most Cherished Library Memories
By lsimon on February 2, 2021 We love hearing people’s favorite memories about using the library, so we’ve asked our readers and the American Library Association’s social media followers to share their experiences with us. Here are a few highlights: “My best memory of the library was when my twin boys found the nonfiction section.…
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National Library Week | Conferences & Events
Image from ALA National Library Week 2021: Welcome to Your Library –The theme for National Library Week (April 4-10, 2021), “Welcome to Your Library,” promotes the idea that libraries extend far beyond the four walls of a building – and that everyone is welcome to use their services. During the pandemic libraries have been going…
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Home | Libraries Ready to Code
“The Ready to Code Collection provides resources and strategies for coding and computational thinking activities that are grounded in research, aligned with library core values, and support broadening participation.” An initiative of the American Library Association (ALA)… Source: Home | Libraries Ready to Code
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State of America’s Libraries Report 2016
State of America’s Libraries Report 2016 “Academic, school, and public libraries continue to face an uncertain economy as they shift resources and services to meet the needs of the 21st-century digital world. The American Library Association launched a new public awareness campaign, “Libraries Transform,” to help shift the mindset that “libraries are obsolete or nice…
