As welcome as Taylor's version is, please read Linda Ronstadt's statement

Local government and school boards were once filled with neighbors who volunteered their time and expertise to serve. Now they are PAC’d with $$$ donors who put their politics ahead of anything else. Our school committees rarely meet anymore and members must sign NDA’s.

We need John Arthur on the Utah State School Board. He has my full support. Learn more about John and how you can support his campaign at votejohnarthur.com/about

We’re excited to feature Wenndy Pray, Wenndy Pray, MLS, librarian at Rafael Cantu Jr. High School and alumna of the TALL Texans Class of 2022, in this month’s Member Spotlight! Read about Wenndy’s journey as a librarian and TLA member here: ow.ly/rf0e50TmcZl

She is 50% lady gaga, 50% fiona apple, and 100% perfect.

If only it didn’t take costly litigation to ensure our districts feel empowered to err on the side of education and refrain from caving to the community’s strictest censors. Glad these books are going back. 30+ other districts should follow suit.

How much can these legal challenges cost our cash-strapped districts? Over $355K for Escambia’s two suits. As for the state, its representatives effectively argued they are not responsible for the district’s decisions to remove/restrict these books. tallahassee.com/story/news/pol…

From bomb threats to mass layoffs, book disposal and the ending of tenure, academic libraries are under fire, too. That, plus this week's book censorship news: bookriot.com/the-state-of-a…

Milford Public Library (CT) had a bomb threat yesterday: doingitlocal.com/2024/09/milfor…

So sad.

Such a Queen!! 👸🏾 👸🏾 👸🏾

“Before all this, I was just a school librarian, but they wanted to silence me, so I thought I would do the exact opposite and become an activist,” Amanda Jones said in wonderful SchoolLibraryJournal article 🌟Amanda Jones: Defender of Libraries & Wonder

“But lawsuits alone can’t save the library in Llano—or any anywhere else—from death by a thousand cuts. Only community support can do that.” -Leila Green Little of the Llano 7

One. Prior to the book banning movement and before the politics of hate and cruelty metastasized, each school year, I regularly visited thirty, forty, fifty, even sixty schools a year. I currently have one author visit scheduled for the 2024-25 school year. One.

A husband and wife Moms For Liberty duo in Hernando, Florida, have self-published an anti-teacher, anti-trans screed picture book that the organization is wanting to shove into schools. This isn't satire. wellsourced.substack.com/p/no-this-book…

My toxic trait is bookmarking things I see on social media and then never looking at them again. 😬

Show your support for libraries at: action.everylibrary.org/emailreps

I know it's not as sexy or compelling as banned books week, but prison banned books week and censorship in prisons is an even bigger issue than that in schools and libraries. Please engage with these stories this week. They are vital.

Today, hear from Ken Meyers, who is currently experiencing incarceration, talk about how uninspiring the choices for reading are in US jails (and how difficult they are to acquire anyway). It's Prison Banned Books Week. bookriot.com/prison-banned-…

Guess what, Pasco? Libraries are for learning about life | Column tampabay.com/opinion/2024/0…