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Editorial: When did libraries become the bad guys?

Hillsborough County, Florida’s fast-growing suburbs in the south and east face many problems. A rogue library system isn’t among them. We’re not sure where Michael Owen, a newly-elected Republican county commissioner, is going with this campaign. But no one should want Hillsborough to reprise an ugly chapter by entangling itself…

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Seven Perth and Kinross libraries saved from proposed closure

Perth and Kinross Council has committed funding to keep the libraries open this year but will review how affordable and sustainable they are

Daily Record

A Pa. library posted a children's drag queen book on Facebook. Then the calls and threats came

PITTSBURGH — The Moon Township librarians rushed around the normally quiet library one December day locking the doors hours before closing. The phones relentlessly rang off the hook as callers on the other end threatened violence and called the librarians groomers and pedophiles. Eventually, the phones were disconnected.

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Legislation aims to deter book bans at public libraries by withholding grants

Legislation aimed at discouraging public libraries from banning books has been introduced in the Democratic-controlled Illinois General Assembly amid largely partisan battles around the country over what books and school curricula are suitable for children.

Chicago Tribune

80 former Congress members mishandled classified documents

WASHINGTON — Documents with classified markings were found mingled in material donated to libraries or universities by as many as 80 former members of Congress, the leaders of the House Intelligence Committee said Wednesday.

Tribune News Service

"Book Bans," "Social Media Censorship," and Our Tongues

One often hears school libraries' decisions to remove certain books labeled "book bans." Some object: Such removals don't actually ban the book; the book remains available at bookstores, and often at public libraries. It's just that the school system has decided not to make the book available to its students…

Reason

Author Joanne Harris calls for more investment in libraries and the arts

She spoke out after receiving an OBE for services to literature from the Prince of Wales.

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Campaigner says 'libraries are levellers' as another is closed

The council previously reversed a plan to close libraries due to public backlash

Liverpool Echo

School libraries are still essential, even in this digital age

Before students consider themselves readers, they must first see themselves as successful at reading. We greatly diminish those odds by removing school libraries and educators dedicated to that endeavor.

Chicago Sun-Times

Brickbat: Reading Is Fundamental

In Georgia, the Forsyth County school system has agreed to pay the legal fees of a group of mothers who sued to overturn a system policy that banned them from reading books from school libraries at school board meetings. The settlement came after a federal court issued an injunction against…

Reason

The Guardian view on children’s reading: a gift that should be for all

Editorial: With stressed families less likely to have time and money to spare for books, young readers are losing out. It’s time to boost school libraries

The Guardian - UK

The Pack Horse Librarians Who Delivered Books Come Hell Or High Water

In the 1930s, Pack Horse Librarians put all their effort into transporting books across creeks and strenuous trails

Zenger

Librarians or parents? Idaho House bills differ on ‘harmful’ materials responsibility

BOISE, Idaho — An Idaho legislative committee on Wednesday rejected a bill that would have made schools and libraries liable to lawsuits for distributing material deemed “harmful” to children.

Tribune News Service

Spending on British libraries falls 17% as in-person visits soar

Official figures show £9,982 was spent per 1,000 people on libraries by central and local government in England, Scotland and Wales last year, down from £11,970 the year before

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Jill Norris obituary

Other lives: Founder of the Toy Libraries Association

Asharq Al-Awsat

Chirac Warned Bush against Overthrowing Saddam

French Diplomat Maurice Gourdault-Montagne's memoirs are unlike those of any regular ambassador that fill French libraries year after year. The author of “The Others Don’t Think Like Us” is no ordinary ambassador. Now retired, his long diplomatic career took him to Tokyo, Beijing, Berlin and London. He was France’s sherpa…

Glasgow Live

Libraries face closure or moving location under West Dunbartonshire Council budget proposals

Council tax could also rise by 3.4 per cent under proposals.

The Guardian - UK

Cost-of-living crisis: one in five parents spend less on books for their children

Survey of more than 3,000 parents across Great Britain found 40% are struggling financially, with parents increasingly relying on school libraries

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Editorial: Progressives have a First Amendment problem

To hear progressives tell it, attacks on free speech come almost exclusively from right-wing book burners eager to control the contents of public school libraries. In particular, Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis and his assaults on woke pedagogy tickle their neck hairs.

The Guardian - UK

Julia Donaldson ends James Patterson’s reign as UK libraries’ most borrowed author

Data shows that Patterson’s 14-year run as readers’ overall favourite has given way to the Gruffalo author

Edinburgh Live

West Lothian hikes council tax by 5.8 per cent to 'save services'

Subsidised buses, free garden waste uplift and libraries protected as finance compromise agreed.

Newslaundry

Delhi library led by BJP leader didn’t have funds for branches, but issued salaries to her son

More than eight branches shut, an unrelenting protest by 75 employees over lack of salaries, a funds crunch, and at the centre of it all, one of Delhi’s oldest municipal libraries and a BJP leader mired in allegations of corruption and mismanagement.

Al Jazeera

Libraries address ‘gaps’ in California housing, weather response

As droughts, fire and severe storms ravage the western United States, local libraries offer sanctuary to those in need.

Liverpool Echo

Plans to close nine libraries, play groups and iconic leisure centre thrown out

Concerns were raised by Conservatives about a council tax rise in Wirral and top staff salaries in the fierce debate

St. Louis Post-Dispatch

Rule targeting Missouri libraries could go into effect with no public hearing

JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. — A controversial change to how public libraries operate in Missouri may go into effect without any public hearings, despite generating a record-setting amount of public comments.

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