Division of Libraries' Day(s) of Learning

in Book Riot by Danika Ellis

by Bill Chappell, NPR

The New York Times

by Andrea Marks in Rolling Stone

Proquest article NYU login required.

by Viet Thanh Nguyen, The New York Times. Proquest link, NYU login required.

Another report from Texas, where state Rep. Matt Krause, chair of the General Investigating Committee, asked school districts for information on his own list of 850 books, most of them gender-and race-themed, that “might make children feel discomfort, guilt or anguish.”

Proquest link, NYU login required. A guest essay in the New York Times from a high school junior, discussing their district’s troubles with book banning and how the binary of banned/not-banned distracts from the issues at hand.

by Nico Lang, published on Them. This article highlights the connection between book-banning bills like HB 800 and the wave of other bills across the nation that have targeted transgender youth in 2021 and 2022.

by Brian Lopez in the Texas Tribune

An article from the Atlantic highlighting fourteen important books that are under threat and that the staff of the magazine feel are essential reading for young people.

ABC News

in Slate by Aymann Ismail

Proquest link (NYU login required).

Ishena Robinson of the NAACP Legal Defense Fund

by Ayesha Rascoe, Audrey Nguyen, Nathan Pugh, and Jordana Hochman

by Anthony Zurcher in BBC

NY Times article by Elizabeth A. Harris and Alexandra Alter published on July 6, 2022. Caustic fights over which books belong on the shelves have put librarians at the center of a bitter and widening culture war.

by Jasmine Gallup, INDY Week

An article describing clubs that are cropping up in high schools in order to read the books that have been banned in their school districts or states.

A news report from Llano County, Tex., where a group has filed a lawsuit in federal court alleging that county officials violated their constitutional rights when they unilaterally removed “award-winning books” from the public libraries “because they disagree with the ideas within them.”

An article from the Post listing ten common reasons for book banning and an example of a book that fits into each category.

published in the Jerusalem Post by Andrew Lapin/JTA