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The article features Virginia Library Association (VLA) Executive Director Lisa Varga, the journal's Librarian of the Year 2024, sponsored by Baker & Taylor. Topics discussed include factors that contributed to her award, her involvement with librarianship, and her representation of the VLA on the amicus briefs filed in Virginia Beach Circuit Court in the obscenity case against the challenged books at the Tidewater Community College/City of Virginia Beach's Joint Use Library.

The article discusses the reversal on the challenge for the book "Colonization and the Wampanoag Story" by Linda Coombs made by the Montgomery County Memorial Library (MCML). The Texas Freedom to Read Project reported that the book was challenged in September 2024 and moved out of the juvenile nonfiction area. PEN America and some organizations asked Montgomery country to overturn the Review Committee's decision on the book and order it to stay in the Juvenile Nonfiction Collection.

An interview with authors Hanif Abdurraqib and Jacqueline Woodson, is presented. They talk about the role they played when they were young, how it feels to know that their work has been challenged or that someone seeks to silence or erase their expression, and their message as authors whose work is protected by librarians.

The article reports on the launch of a free collection of book résumés by Unite Against Book Bans (UABB), the national initiative created by the American Library Association (ALA) in 2022, to support librarians, educators, parents, students, and other community advocates in their efforts to keep frequently challenged books on shelves. Topics include feature of the book résumés and benefits of book résumés to librarians.

The author comments on the efforts to challenge and ban books across many communities. He talks about his childhood experiences with literature and poetry, the need of members of the library community to advocate for access and the free exchange of ideas, and the gravest injustices that the members of the library community could commit against the future.

The article reports that the Digital Public Library of America's (DPLA) Banned Book Club has been offering challenged books to readers across the country, through the free Palace e-reader application, since its launch on July 21, 2023. Topics include the anticensorship campaigns launched by academic libraries, the DPLA being an offshoot of the Palace Project, a nonprofit, open-source library platform, and books that can be accessed on the DPLA platform.

The article discusses censorship efforts in the 2020s in the U.S. which have moved beyond concerned parents to include restrictive legislation, library board power plays, and defunding. Topics include book challenges and calls for material reconsideration in the first nine months of 2022, K-12 school libraries as a prime target for censorship efforts, and legislation crafted by North Dakota lawmakers in January 2023 that would ban books with visual depictions of sexually explicit content.

The author reflects on book challenges that take teamwork to deal with challenging times. She talks about the reason for censoring books about current and historical racism, the little decisions that librarians make every day that make books more or less accessible, and organizations that support people and libraries deal with the challenges.

The author applauds the library staff in Hurricane, Utah who opposed the ban on displays about LGBTQ topics. She argues that the ban runs counter to the Library Bill of Rights, as well as the practice of raising awareness of resources for underserved marginalized populations. She considers the move by Joel Tucker, director of South Utah's Washington County Library System, to ban such topics as discriminatory which affects intellectual freedom.

The article reports on a complaint by Tara Schultz, a student at Crafton Hills College in Yucaipa, California, about what she considered to be objectionable content in a course on graphic novels. The school's administration declined her request to remove the four books including "Fun Home" by Alison Bechdel, "Y: The Last Man" by Brian Vaughn, and "The Doll's House" by Neil Gaiman from the course and from the college bookstore or to place a warning label on the books.

Reports that the number of reported book challenges declined by close to ten percent in 1996, according to the American Library Association's (ALA) Office for Intellectual Freedom. How the concern over unmonitored lnternet access has pushed the issue of book challenges into the background; The series of `Goosebumps' books by R.L. Stine as the most challenged book; Other challenged titles.

Reports the decision of the Marion County Commissioners in Ocala, Florida to declare themselves arbiters on challenged library books. Opposition to the sex education book for children titled 'It's Perfectly Normal,' which residents characterized as pornographic; Details of the policy change.

Reports on the results of a survey concerning book censorship in the U.S. Rise in censorship of challenged materials; Trend in self-censorship; Reaction of librarians concerning censorship.