‘The Librarians’: Meet the heroes fighting against conservative book bans in the South

https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://www.advocate.com/news/culture/the-librarians-book-bans-documentary

BBC Studios Names New CFO After Record Results; Archstone Sinister Chatbot Horror; ‘Inferno: LA on Fire’ Producer Hires Execs; Pluto Crime Series – Global Briefs
#News #AmandaJones #BBCStudios #GlobalBriefs #ITNProductions #LorraineBurgess

https://deadline.com/2025/07/bbc-studios-cfo-amanda-jones-lorraine-burgess-exit-global-briefs-1236464569/

BBC Studios Names New CFO After Record Results; Archstone Sinister Chatbot Horror; ‘Inferno: LA on Fire’ Producer Hires Execs; Pluto Crime Series – Global Briefs

BBC Studios has named Amanda Jones CFO after record results at the 'Doctor Who' and 'Baby Reindeer' outfit, with Lorraine Burgess exiting.

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"Jones is impatient with the outsize expectations laid at the feet of librarians. She stresses that the extent of what librarians owe their patrons, including the care they provide to those who wander in through their library doors, is elastic but not infinite."

Melina Moe considers #AmandaJones’s #ThatLibrarian: The Fight Against #BookBanning in America

https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/how-librarians-found-themselves-on-the-front-line-of-the-culture-war/

#USpol #bookbans #censorship #wokebashing #moralPanics #cyberharassment #memoirs #libraries #books @bookstodon

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I'm concerned that this will also negatively impact people like #AmandaJones (#ThatLibrarian), who are filing legitimate defamation suits against individuals on #SocialMedia who call those who oppose #BookBans "groomers," etm.

I'm not putting my name on anything until I understand what it is.

That Librarian: The Fight Against Book Banning in America (Hardcover) | Cavalier House Books

“Amanda Jones started getting death threats, all for standing up for our right to read . . . but she's not stopped fighting against book bans, or stopped advocating for access to diverse stories.”-Oprah Winfrey, in a speech at the 2023 National Book Awards"As an author whose novels have been banned . . .

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sYiQ9HQCVYY

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THIS is fucking SCARY!!!!!

#AmandaJones, #librarian and author of '#ThatLibrarian' Spoke Out against Book Banning. Now she Fears for her Life.

#NoBookBans #STOPTheFarRight

#farright #books #libraries #Louisianna

A #MustwatchVideo

This Librarian Spoke Out Against Book Banning. Now She Fears for Her Life | Amanpour and Company

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Amanda Jones' memoir recalls being branded 'That Librarian' by haters for calling out #censorship. Host Deepa Fernandes speaks with #Louisiana #school #librarian #AmandaJones. In her new memoir, "That Librarian: The Fight Against #Book #Banning in America," Jones tells the story of the #vitriol she received both in person & online after she spoke out against censorship at a public meeting. https://www.wbur.org/hereandnow/2024/08/27/amanda-jones-that-librarian #hatecrimes #bookBans #publiclibraries #librarians #freedom #democracy #libraries
Amanda Jones' memoir recalls being branded 'That Librarian' by haters for calling out censorship | Here & Now

In the book, Louisiana school librarian Amanda Jones tells the story of the vitriol she received both in person and online after she spoke out against censorship at a public meeting.

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One school librarian who spoke out against censorship and book bans became a target of extremists | Here & Now

Libraries are for everyone. That's what librarian Amanda Jones believes, and what she said last year at her local library board meeting in her small town in Louisiana.

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