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Daniel Montgomery’s love of books started as a youngster with weekly visits to the public library, which fittingly led him to a nearly two-decade career as an English teacher. As an educator, he ...

For generations, a misidentified medieval manuscript was hidden in a 474-year-old English boarding school’s library. After a ...

A library book checked out in July 1943 has finally made its way back to the San Antonio Public Library (SAPL) in Texas after 82 years overdue. Your Child, His Family, and Friends by Frances Bruce ...

There were 10,000 instances of book bans at public schools in the 2023-24 school year, according to PEN America. In 2024, 5,813 titles were challenged in public libraries and schools nationwide, says ...

Attempts to restrict library books continued to accelerate last year, according to a report released Thursday from the American Library Association. Overall, the number of individual titles challenged ...

For months, Carolyn Harrison and a small band of activists have been setting up folding tables with an array of what they call "bad books" outside the public library in Idaho Falls, Idaho. As Harrison ...

The administration has rebranded our library as a communal space for doing almost everything except reading. A student looking for a book in a school library. Take a peek into the library at ...

County officials in Wyoming fired Terri Lesley, a library director, after she refused to purge children and young adult books that contained sexual content and L.G.B.T.Q. themes. By Adeel Hassan A ...

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 ...

Customers waited in a line that stretched for more than a block on the opening day of the fall Friends of the Library book sale on Saturday, Oct. 25, 2025. “It’s quite overwhelming whenever you think ...

TALLAHASSEE, Fla. — Florida had more books challenged for removal than any other state last year as book bans and attempted book bans reached the "highest levels ever documented," according to a ...