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I received an MLIS and became a middle school librarian 20 years ago. Our school board recently expressed no confidence in librarians and teachers to make book selection decisions. I [...]

I'm a retired public librarian who just moved from another city. I volunteer with the Friends of the Library book sale at the public library. I was recently sorting books [...]

I recently asked a second-grade boy what he likes to read. He replied, 'Chapter books.' I asked him, 'Do you like humor, adventure, or maybe superheroes?' 'Just chapter books,' he [...]

The immense wildfires that have blazed their way through parts of California, Idaho, Montana, Oregon, and Washington in 2020 and 2021 are believed to be fueled by climate change. According [...]

You see a lot of censorship cases and hear from a lot of frustrated librarians and teachers. How do you stay hopeful? Free speech advocacy groups across the nation are [...]

This year, Banned Books Week is September 26-October 6, and Jason Reynolds, the National Ambassador for Young People's Literature, is the inaugural honorary chair. 'Books Unite Us. Censorship Divides Us' [...]

I have been the librarian at my elementary school for 22 years. I never felt intimidated by a parent or an administrator until this year. My principal told the faculty [...]

The director of the public library where I serve as children's librarian recently pulled a number of books that deal with sex and sexuality. The mother of an eight-year-old requested [...]

I am the library media specialist at a K-8 private school. A parent of a kindergartner doesn't want her son to borrow any books that contain violence. Should I censor [...]

The mother of a fourth grader complained to my principal that I gave her son a book she finds offensive. The principal reprimanded me and told me that because of [...]

I work in a small district with four schools: two elementary, one middle, and one high school. The four librarians meet monthly to discuss issues affecting library services to students. [...]

I'm a librarian in an elementary school with a diverse student body. Last year a parent asked the school board to remove informational books about Christmas celebrations in other countries [...]

How do you give children the books they want without getting in trouble with parents? Let children take the books they want. If a parent doesn't like what a child [...]

I'm a middle school librarian, and my son is a high school junior. We don't live in Florida, where there has been so much outrage about All Boys Aren't Blue [...]

I'm a first-year librarian in a school serving grades 5-12. The entire library collection has been available to all students. When a parent complained that her fifth grader checked out [...]

I'm an elementary school librarian and feel unprepared for materials challenges. The only library school course I took dealing with intellectual freedom was taught by a nonlibrarian with textbook knowledge [...]

Many librarians and educators in my district recommend Common Sense Media (CSM) as a book review source. Can you provide updated guidance about why CSM is problematic for librarians and [...]

For 20 years I've taught language arts at the only middle school In a small midwestern town. Now I'm the librarian In the same school. The biography section is old [...]

I'm not a trained children's librarian, but I'm responsible for children's services in an active branch library. We have a waiting list for books like the 'Junie B. Jones,' 'Captain [...]

I'm the children's librarian in a small public library. We are in the process of evaluating our collection, but the library doesn't have a policy that guides the staff in [...]

The article offers pieces of advice on various issues and concerns related to book censorship. These include the insistence of a volunteer with the Friends of the Library book sale to put all LGBTQIA+ books on a shelf labeled "controversial," how to respond to an elementary school reading teacher who worries about her students selecting a book their parents may find unacceptable and avoids the library, and the decision by a principal to shut down the celebration of Banned Books Week.

The article presents pieces of advice on issues related to book censorship. Topics include the concern of a youth services librarian in a public library for not being allowed to have a June Pride display in the children's areas, how an elementary school librarian should answer the questions of a parent who is concerned about some books her daughter brings home, and how to deal with a teacher who refused to accept a book report because it is a novel she brought from home.

The article offers advice on problems related to book censorship in libraries in the U.S. Topics include how a library media specialist at a K-8 private school should deal with a student whose parent does not want her son to borrow any books that contain violence, a complaint from the parent of a third grader who borrowed Raina Telgemeier's "Drama," and the pressure being made by the board of trustees for librarians to eliminate the summer reading program.

The article presents pieces of advice on problems related to censorship. Topics include whether the idea of informing parents of books their students borrow is a common practice, the demand by a principal to a librarian to send him a list of LGBTQIA+ books that the high school library circulates, and how to handle a situation involving a first grader who seems to enjoy the books the teacher reads aloud but stays seated when his classmates search for books to borrow.

The article presents questions and answers on the appropriate response by librarians when adults demand book removal from libraries.

The article presents advice related to book censorship in the U.S. Topics include the problem of a librarian whose library school course he took dealing with intellectual freedom was taught by a nonlibrarian with textbook knowledge who never discussed actual cases, the concern of a librarian whose principal asked to remove a list books, and how to deal with a principal who does not want to allow students to write the governor and express their views on his push to remove books from libraries.

The article presents issues concerning library censorship. Topics include concern on a waiting list for books like the "Junie B. Jones," "Captain Underpants" and "Bad Kitty" series, how to deal with a principal who is known for siding with students and their parents, and how to handle first grade teachers who insist that students only borrow books they can read.