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Colorado school districts will need to adopt policies by this fall about when and why library books can be taken from the shelves under a new law signed by Gov. Jared Polis on Thursday.

Activity buzzed inside the Greenwood Public Library on a warm afternoon in April. Local residents browsed through the shelves, picking out the most recent bestsellers and literary classics as well as audiobooks, CDs and DVDs.

A group of school librarians, educators and families took part in a town hall to fight for increased funding of school libraries and to object to legislation aimed at banning certain books.

Cuyahoga County Public Library saw growth in nearly every area in 2024, according to its annual report released this week.

On a recent afternoon, Betsy Harrington used her laptop to scroll through pages of a book available in her teenage kids’ online school library. It’s a copy of “This Book Is Gay,” and she did not like what she saw.

In February, Radnor High School banned the books Gender Queer, Fun Home, and Blankets, after a parent reportedly complained to township officials that the books, which are graphic novels, contained child pornography. The superintendent of Radnor schools put together a committee to examine the books following the complaint, and the committee voted five to one […]

North Dakota’s Republican governor on Wednesday vetoed bills to further restrict sexual content in libraries and to create a private school voucher program, rejecting two measures that have seen widespread support by GOP governors in other states.

The US Naval Academy canceled a lecture that author Ryan Holiday was scheduled to give to students there last week after he refused to remove slides from his planned presentation that criticized the academy’s decision to remove nearly 400 books from its main library.