Updates from around the world, including Singapore's pop-up Star Wars Library and the reopening of Johannesburg City Library ...

Despite measures to continue operations and preserve pending contracts with libraries, the book distributor Baker & Taylor ...

Here's how a few notable figures American Libraries covered have reflected on advocacy, diverse stories, and censorship-free ...

Banned Books Week Youth Honorary Chair Iris Mogul discusses starting a book club and her work with the National Coalition ...

Instead of simply highlighting censorship statistics or bemoaning what we can’t read, the Freedom Walk celebrates our right to read.

A National Coalition Against Censorship and Brooklyn Public Library workshop helps young people become intellectual freedom advocates.

Former Librarian of Congress Carla Hayden at the 2025 ALA Annual Conference.

Tiwanna Nevels, assistant state librarian at State Library of North Carolina in Raleigh, in the Big Chair at the 2025 ALA Annual Conference, holding a sign that says I Believe in the Freedom to Read ...

Students explore the tables at the Freedom Walk program at Clark High School.

The removal was done in transgression of the library board’s book reconsideration policy. The book’s catalog record also vanished. Local media outlets reported that the book was removed by our ...

American Library Association (ALA) President Cindy Hohl called the third, final Council meeting of ALA’s 2025 Annual Conference and Exhibition in Philadelphia to order at 9:08 a.m. on June 30. The ...