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The article offers advice to various problems related to censorship in libraries. Topics include the expression of no confidence by the school board in librarians and teachers to make book selection decisions, the intention of a school librarian's husband to challenge a public library which restricted all LGBTQIA+books for those under 18, and the request by the Parents and Teachers' Association president in an elementary school to look for offensive words in the dictionary in their library.

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 questions and answers related to book censorship including how to stay hopeful despite seeing a lot of censorship, how to deal with an elementary school principal who has issued many warnings about books used in the classroom that teachers feel threatened and no longer want to read aloud, and how to respond to a fourth grade boy who says his grandmother does not want him reading "Captain Underpants" books.

The article presents pieces of advice on issues related to censorship in libraries. Topics discussed include the move by the principal to ask a group of parents to periodically observe teachers and librarians without talking this over with staff, the complaint of a parent that her son feels judged on what he is reading after his youth minister gave him a list of evil books he should not read, and how to respond to a mother who scrutinizes what book her son selects at the library.

The article presents pieces of advice on problems related to library censorship. Topics discussed include how to respond to a mother who requested for a copy of a book that was removed by the director of the public library, concern on the decision of the school principal not to allow a book fair during Children's Book Week, and reason that a collection development policy that includes procedures for dealing with book challenges is so important if it is easy to ignore the procedures.

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 advice to various problems related to library censorship. Topics include the demand by a school principal to a librarian not to recommend books to students, a complaint by a mother against a children's librarian about the titles in the children's room, and a high school debate about gun violence which uses the library to do research for practice debates and competitions.

The article presents questions and answers related to censorship including updated guidance on why Common Sense Media (CSM) is problematic for librarians and educators to use, the intention of the school board on one's district to examine how high school teachers select books they teach, and how to respond to a question by a new principal on why librarians did not use Accelerated Reader (AR).

The article presents questions and answers related to library censorship including the concern of a librarian about including books at the biography section of a library on people who have engaged in questionable behaviors, the use of the Association for Library Service to Children (ALSC's) Notable Children's Books List as a purchasing guide, and whether it is appropriate to warn foster children who may grab a book about main characters in foster care.

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.

The article presents questions and answers related to library censorship including how to deal with a library that does not have a policy that guides the staff in deselecting materials, the books that are on the top ten most challenged books list published by the American Library Association, and how to handle the complaint of a parent that her son accessed an offensive article.

The article presents advice to issues and problems related to library censorship. These include the concern of a librarian that the solutions he has considered on the loss of a large number of materials each year would violate principles of intellectual freedom, whether it is right to reprimand a library worker for making a comment to a high school student about books she was borrowing, and whether not allowing kindergartners to borrow books violate the principles of intellectual freedom.

The article provides advice to problems and concerns related to library censorship. Topics include how economically challenged students can afford to buy books, how to help faculty and students to have access to library services should there be a delay in opening school, and how to deal with concerned neighbors who have complained that little libraries in their neighborhood are mixing children's books with adult and young adult (YA) titles.

The article presents questions and answers related to library censorship, including what to do with teachers who are struggling to get the assignment out to students and parents in a summer reading program and fear that some titles will be challenged, the 2019 top ten most challenged books list which include most of the books that deal with LGBTQIA topics, and an alternative for the book "The Day They Came to Arrest the Book" by Nat Hentoff.

This section presents pieces of advice on issues and problems related to library censorship. These include local churches that are urging members to challenge materials in schools on the occult and witchcraft, an eighth grade teacher who wants to develop a different approach to teaching the First Amendment to her students, and reason that few graphic novels were brought for the children's collection at a large public library system and was told that most graphic novels are not appropriate.

The article presents pieces of advice to various issues and problems related to library censorship. These include a verbal warning from a librarian about the content of a book, how to handle a first grade teacher who humiliates a student by stating that such students cannot read the book he would borrow, and the policy of not issuing library cards to students owing fines for lost library materials in the previous year.

The article presents questions and answers related to censorship in libraries including refusing to purchase a title that contains cultural misrepresentation, stereotypes, or negative representation; the pressure for a public library in Kansas to put books focusing on transgender children in the adults of young adult section; and what to do when a book is being challenged in one school.

The article presents questions and answers related to censorship including how to address the concern of a mother looking for a book on transgender issues, how to deal with a principal who insists that students say the Pledge of Allegiance each morning, and concern on using the book "The Hate U Give" by Angie Thomas's as the first novel for a high school book club for the new school year.

The article presents questions and answers related to censorship in libraries including the complain of letting an elementary student borrow mature books, the sharing of "Shiloh" book by Phyllis Reynolds Naylor that has curse words, and the visiting author that uses objectionable words.

The article presents answers to the questions on students and censorship issues faced by librarians, privacy laws related to libraries and religious texts and religious-themed books in public school library.

The article presents questions and answers related to library censorship including how to deal with an art teacher who does not allow works with nudity, and how the review media can better assist librarians in making purchasing decisions.

The article presents questions and answers related to censorship including the web site FactsonFiction.org which labels a book with controversial content, withdrawal of books with censorship issues by libraries, and the problems featured at the book "The Outsiders," by S. E. Hinton.

The article provides questions and answers related to library censorship, including banned book programming for children, restricting book borrowing, and trigger warning for young adult (YA) literature.

Answers are presented to library questions related to censorship including how libraries should respond to young adult books that have been challenged, books that present strong female characters, and efforts to have certain books not taught by the English department.

Questions and answers related to censorship and libraries are presented including working with an overly attentive school principal, planning a family literacy day which incorporates authors for children and young adults, and addressing personal censorship in collection development.

Questions and answers related to library censorship are presented including one on labeling more mature titles in middle school libraries, one on labeling books in spite of one's personal educational philosophy, and one on censoring mature language in children's books.

The article provides an answer to a question of requiring parental permission to read certain books in a school library. Responses to a previous column concerning Accelerated Reader (AR) labels on library books are also presented.

The article presents questions and answers related to librarians and libraries including the responsibility for the library's materials upon a parent's complaint, dealing with a complaint from an African-American parent about the book "Metal Man," and whether to use a labeling system for books.

The article presents several questions and answers relating to concerns faced by librarians including fears that a librarian has regarding censorship, the possibility that school libraries can be sued because students were not given access to information they were searching for online and steps that children's librarians should take in regards to questionable reading material.

The article offers questions and answers concerning library censorship including whether to purchase a book containing a swear word for the school library, handling complaints from homeschooling parents concerning collection choices in public libraries, and judging the maturity level of books in a library serving grades 7 through 12.

Questions and answers are presented regarding censorship in education, including a question on what to do when members of a religious group try to hand out religious material to students, about a parent's complaint about teaching "A Separate Peace" to eighth graders, and on a group of "concerned citizens" who brought a list of books they wanted banned from libraries.

The article presents questions and answers related to censorship in school libraries including the appropriateness of the book "Blubber," by Judy Blume, how to handle requests to remove popular fiction series from parochial school library collections, and how to develop selection-and-retention policies for Catholic high school libraries.

The article presents answers to readers questions related to book selection and censorship situations in school libraries, with topics including whether librarians limiting students' selections due to perceived age-appropriateness is a form of censorship, to what extent a librarian should comment on controversial books, in this case "The Golden Compass," when asked by parents, and how to react when a book, in this case "Silent tot he Bone," is challenged in a nearby school.