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But one library system has announced a program to challenge the tide of book bannings. NPR's Andrew Limbong has more. ANDREW LIMBONG, BYLINE: Let's say you're a 14-year-old kid living in a school ...
A school superintendent in a suburb of Nashville, Tennessee, pulled his system’s ... searched the Epic library available on her kindergartner’s laptop and found books supporting LGBTQ pride.
An Alabama public library system says it mistakenly added a children’s picture book to a list of books containing explicit material because the author’s last name is Gay. The Huntsville ...
A child hands an overdue book to a ... access to the library when one of our staunchest principles is trying to provide the widest access to materials that we can,” the system’s CEO, Patrick ...
Banning books does not go well," one side of sign that Gayle McKibben of Murfreesboro held in the back row of the meeting room. The other side of McKibben's sign said: "Democracy. Not Theocracy." The ...
Local officials are considering closing the library system's doors. A Texas county's library system is being threatened amid an ongoing battle over banned books. On Thursday, the Llano County ...
“We are merely moving books within the library system that meet the legal definition of harmful to minors,” Ottosen wrote. “Moving doesn’t qualify as banning. They will still be available ...
LIMBONG: That's Nick Higgins, chief librarian at the Brooklyn Public Library. HIGGINS: ...Which gives them access to about half a million audiobooks and e-books in our system at Brooklyn Public ...