Proposed legislation would pressure publishers to adjust borrowing limits and find other ways to widen access.

Some Virginia school districts seem to be misinterpreting a 2022 state law as justification for removing books from their ...

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When, on June 12, 2023, Illinois Gov. J. B. Pritzker signed into law Public Act 103-0100 in Chicago’s Harold Washington Library Center, the city’s central library, he said it would make the state the ...

As a wave of attempts to remove books from school libraries continues to sweep the country, including in Bartholomew County, an Indiana University law professor says that the efforts have First ...

New study finds Virginia schools have removed 344 books, with some incorrectly citing a 2022 parental notification law that ...

Under state law, library books can be removed or have their access restricted only if they can be considered “obscene” or “harmful to minors” by a “reasonable person” in any part of ...

There are efforts to change how decisions are made about which books libraries should stock and which section they belong in. Some advocate using a national rating system like the one used for movies.

I could also access all my Kindle books, which now number about 200, on my iPhone so I am never without something to read if I need to wait for someone. This column was precipitated by a friend's ...

The law requires all library books available to students to be approved by a certified media specialist. Under new training guidelines recently approved by the State Board of Education, ...

This exhibit explores that book’s rich ancestry, reaching back centuries beyond its first printing in 1891. It is an important history too, as modern courts regularly cite old and new dictionaries in ...