'My freedom to read allows me to choose the ideas I want to learn, the knowledge I want to pursue, and the pages I want to peruse.' — from Tara Lago's winning essay in the NY Public Library Books for All Teen Writing Contest via Teen Vogue
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2024 PSLA Presidential Award, Deborah Caldwell-Stone, Director of ALA's Office of Intellectual Freedom & Director of the Freedom to Read Foundation. Thank you for all you and your office do to support libraries and helping to allow students to access books #PSLA50 American Library Association

One of our all-time favorite #NationalLibraryWeek posters. It still looks great 65 years later.

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“Librarians need to stand up, but if our community doesn’t stand up behind us, one person can’t make this change. The entire community is going to have to come together with the librarians in order to stop this.” Virginia Library Assoc. Director Lisa Varga
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“The mental damage is done, the trauma is there. I truly believe that’s what keeps many librarians from speaking up.” Becky Calzada, co-founder of TXFReadomFighters #FReadom

“The rhetoric about book banning right now is built around this falsehood that books touching on sex or gender identity, sexual orientation, or deal with what’s called critical race theory are legally harmful to minors.” ALA OIF Director Deborah Caldwell-Stone

“This was never about the books. This was never about protecting people. The books that they gave me to get rid of were books on racism. They were books on transgender and sexual orientation and questioning for teens.” Texas librarian Suzette Baker

These librarians are fighting back: PBS PBS NewsHour's Casey Kuhn spoke with six librarians across the country about their experiences fighting book bans.
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100 NEW BOOK RÉSUMÉS!

For #NationalLibraryWeek , we added 100 new book résumés: free resources that detail a book’s significance & educational value to help librarians, parents & other advocates defend books from bans: uniteagainstbookbans.org/unite-against-… #RightToReadDay #UniteAgainstBookBans

NEW on #TakeActionForLibraries Day: ALA launches #ReaderVoterReady campaign to encourage all library advocates and their communities to get informed, get registered, and get ready to vote!

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.American Library Association released its annual #BannedBooksList : “All Boys Aren’t Blue” by George M Johnson Garçon was #2 Most Challenged Book & “Flamer” by Mike Curato was #5 Most Challenged Book of 2023. See the full list & protect the freedom to read at ala.org/bbooks/ #NationalLibraryWeek

“It’s very scary. If you’re a licensed teacher just being charged with a felony potentially gets rid of your license even if you’re found innocent. That’s a very serious thing.” Diane Rogers, Indiana Library Federation President apnews.com/article/book-b…
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.UniteAgainstBookBans added 100 new book résumés to their collection on #RightToReadDay .
Check out this great free resource to help librarians, parents, & other advocates defend books from bans.
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Vroom vroom! What’s that sound? It’s a #bookmobile , and it’s bringing the library to the people! From community homes to schools to pop-ups in local parks & more, libraries meet people where they are to deliver essential resources.
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The CBC and @herhymeswithme want to thank librarians & library lovers across the country during #NationalLibraryWeek & #RightToReadDay !

The CBC stands with you today and every day, & this original poem is a call to band together & #UniteAgainstBookBans .

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Dear Friends, the ALA came out with its challenged (aka banned) books list for 2023. My book The Perks of Being a Wallflower is #4. My friend Jesse Andrews' Me and Earl and the Dying Girl is #7. It's personal to us as it is for every author on this list. I just wanted to share.

NEW BOOK RÉSUMÉS!

For #RightToReadDay , we've added 100 NEW résumés: free resources that detail a book’s significance & educational value to help librarians, parents, & other advocates defend books from bans: bookresumes.uniteagainstbookbans.org #NationalLibraryWeek #UniteAgainstBookBans

“Shining a light on the harmful workings of these pressure groups is one of the actions we must take to protect our right to read.” ALA President Emily Drabinski
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