17 States Are Considering Laws That Would Imprison Librarians

Meanwhile, Ron DeSantis has been forced to limit certain Floridians to only one book-banning attempt per month.

Vanity Fair

"Join EdTrust and renowned leaders in education and civil rights for an essential conversation on how to push back against efforts to suppress the teaching of honest history and diversity of identities and ideas." #StopBookbanners #SaveLibrarians #RespectOurTeachers #VoteBlue2024

https://edtrust.org/cant-be-erased-rally-against-book-bans/?fbclid=IwAR2IjLdBHr2JwtHmuVQg1lDF5WRbkq5HYFsECBoTUzQkpe7bffTrvNpepgI#

Can't Be Erased - An Event to Rally Against Book Bans and Curriculum Censorship

Join EdTrust and renowned leaders in education and civil rights for an essential conversation on how to push back…

The Education Trust

"This is part of a concerted effort to make America dumb again. These are political attacks against science, history and facts. It just makes sense they would also target the repositories of these sciences, histories and facts – libraries."
#SaveLibrarians #SaveSchoolLibraries #SavePublicLibraries #VoteBlueEveryElection

https://gadflyonthewallblog.com/2023/08/25/where-have-school-libraries-gone/

Where Have School Libraries Gone?

When I walked passed the space that used to house the McKeesport high school library, I saw a few random books piled up on packing pallets ready to be taken away.

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RT @[email protected]: What is a library? A living body of knowledge, constantly tended for the benefit of all, so fake news is weeded out & we're never exploited for profit. A library is librarians. A library is love.
#SaveLibraries #SaveLibrarians
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2018/jun/17/the-guardian-view-on-books-for-all-libraries-give-us-power
The Guardian view on books for all: libraries give us power | Editorial

Editorial: Opening facilities for longer but without librarians is a mixed blessing, though still better than closing them, as we do in Britain