Dan Williams’ proposed book ban aims to gin up a moral panic ‘with no basis in reality’

https://web.brid.gy/r/https://albertapolitics.ca/2026/04/dan-williams-proposed-book-ban-aims-to-gin-up-a-moral-panic-with-no-basis-in-reality/

From the Reader Advisories for All blog, a guest post from Robin Bradford; both Robin and Becky (the blog owner) are public librarians working in the U.S., and dealing with both the constant cuts to public libraries' budgets, and the harm that 'vocational awe' does to actual library staff trying to perform superhuman feats on the regular.

#USPolitics #Libraries #Librarians #VocationalAwe #BookBans

https://raforall.blogspot.com/2025/01/library-staff-are-not-superheroes-guest.html

#bookbans

"[W]e haven't been staying away so much as not coming here."
~Ron Nasty

#USPolitics #BookBans #Librarians #MutualAid

If you live in the U.S. and use your local library, you may be aware of the raging censorship movement taking place all over the country (no, blue states aren't safe from the push). What you may not realize is how many librarians fight for the freedom to read for all of us--adults and children. It often costs them their job.

If you can, drop a few dollars to help Luanne James as she fights:
https://www.gofundme.com/f/fsg98-help-luanne-james-in-her-time-of-need

Reactor (Tor.com) on the Book Ban Bill working it's way through the US House of Representatives.

https://reactormag.com/what-to-know-about-the-national-book-ban-bill/

Know it to fight it.

#bookbans #uspol #uspolitics #2026midterms

STOP ARKANSAS BOOK BAN

The AR DOC is attempting to implement the most restrictive ban on physical publications in any state prison under the lie of safety. (see https://www.prisoncensorship.info/article/arkansas-attempts-ban-on-all-publications/)

Contact the Director and the Board of Corrections to express the importance of newspapers, magazines and books in prisons; that group punishment for a few incidents is a violation of the UN minimum standard for the treatment of prisoners; and that no staff have been harmed by substances on mail.

Dexter Payne
Director of Division of Correction
(870) 267­6200
[email protected]

Lindsay Wallace
Secretary of the Dept of Corrections
[email protected]

**Board of Corrections**
P.O. Box 20550
White Hall, AR 71612
(870) 267­6754

Dr. Dubs Byers
[email protected]
Jamie Barker
[email protected]
Nathan Lee
[email protected]
Boyce Hamlet
[email protected]
Grant Hodges
[email protected]
Lee Watson
[email protected]
Pastor Alonza Jiles
[email protected]

Tool to automatically message officials: https://win.newmode.net/arkansasjusticereformcoalition/stopprisonbookban

#MIM #PrisonCensorship #Arkansas #BookBans #PrisonBannedBooks

An unnamed school in the UK used #AI to decide which books to ban from the library.
https://www.standard.co.uk/news/uk/uk-school-library-1984-ai-b1276535.html

#BookBans #Censorship #DefendResearch #Libraries

EDIT. I fixed a broken link. Thanks to @staringatclouds .