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The article presents a roundtable discussion of experts including John Chrastka of EveryLibrary, Nick Grove of Meridian Library District, Idaho, and Jason Kucsma of Toledo Lucas County Public Library, Ohio on March 5, 2024. They discussed book bans and censorship in libraries, how libraries can be the best advocates for their institutions, and how libraries should be thinking about the 2024 election year in terms of prioritizing resources and focus.

The article focuses on the challenges faced by public libraries in Louisiana, U.S. due to censorship efforts, including targeted attacks on library programs, book displays and funding by groups aiming to defund and control library content. Topics include the rise of censorship campaigns infiltrating library boards and councils; resulting in book challenges; tiered library card systems; and legislative actions affecting public libraries statewide.

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 reflects on his love for reading as a book lover who works in the book industry and the rise in attempts to ban books in the U.S. He talks about his support of the First Amendment in ways he did not expect when he began in publishing in 1988, the effects of reading to him, and the economic impacts of book bans.

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.

An introduction to articles in the issue is presented on topics including personal stories and perspectives of partners connected to libraries on censorship, an interview with authors Hanif Abdurraqib and Jacqueline Woods about censorship, and Toni Morrison's novel, "Jazz."

The article discusses the highlights of the Library Journal 2023 Directors' Summit held at Houston Public Library's Julia Ideson Building in Houston, Texas on November 9-10. Topics include focus of the 2022 Directors's Summit, meeting challenges at the Directors' Summit, and experiences shared by panelists with proactive advocacy and legal battles over censorship legislation.

The article discusses the online censorship battle in schools across the U.S. where online library databases and resources come under attack. Topics discussed include groups that led the attempts to restrict access to online resources, states that are considering legislation to require databases to remove and block access to materials deemed obscene and harmful, and information on protests against BrainPop.

An introduction is presented in which the editor discusses the challenges and initiatives facing the library profession in 2024, including efforts to promote critical thinking, address censorship, restructure membership dues, plan the 2025 conference, and engage legislators in support of libraries.

The author comments on the stand of "Last Week Tonight" show host John Oliver on book censorship. She discusses the launch by Oliver of an informed, impassioned defense of libraries, the primary targets of those seeking to restrict books in public libraries and schools, and a pilot program piloted by Janine (Quinta Brunson), bringing Abbott Elementary its first librarian.

The article discusses the impact of censorship on the delivery of books and analyzes what would happen if Dav Pilkey's "Dog Man" graphic novel series, "Dog Man #12: The Scarlet Shedder," to be released in March 2024 is not available for library checkout right away. Topics include opportunity provided by the possible delay of the book for librarians and their classroom allies and updates about the legislation on book censorship.

The article focuses on a bill, known as HB 2789 that explicitly prohibits Illinois libraries from banning books, drafted by Alexi Giannoulias. Topics discussed include comments from Giannoulias, significance of the bill to Giannoulias and Governor J. B. Pritzker, and demands of the bill for Illinois libraries.

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 article provides information on Louisiana Attorney General and gubernatorial candidate Jeff Landry's online form for reporting graphic sexual content in libraries which has been called a "tip line" by the news media. Topics discussed include purpose of the "tip line" according to Landry's website, the support of Michael Lunsford of Citizens for a New Louisiana to Landry's efforts, and how school librarian Amanda Jones sees the tip line.

The article offers advice to various problems related to censorship in libraries. Topics include the expression of no confidence by the school board in librarians and teachers to make book selection decisions, the intention of a school librarian's husband to challenge a public library which restricted all LGBTQIA+books for those under 18, and the request by the Parents and Teachers' Association president in an elementary school to look for offensive words in the dictionary in their library.

The author talks about the challenges faced by school librarians due to coordinated censorship campaigns. She discusses the claim by Jennifer Pippin, president of the local Moms for Liberty chapter, on the goblin nudity, the pressure of book challenges and onerous district policy faced by librarians, and support needed by school librarians to fulfill their responsibility to students.

The article offers pieces of advice on various issues and concerns related to book censorship. These include the insistence of a volunteer with the Friends of the Library book sale to put all LGBTQIA+ books on a shelf labeled "controversial," how to respond to an elementary school reading teacher who worries about her students selecting a book their parents may find unacceptable and avoids the library, and the decision by a principal to shut down the celebration of Banned Books Week.

The article offers insight to the Illinois Library Association Annual Report 2019–2020. Topics include equity, diversity, and inclusion programming by Mark Puente, Senior Director of Diversity and Leadership Programs; coalition work with Freedom to Learn Campaign regarding censorship in prison libraries; and the development of proposal for the Secretary of State to increase per capita rate for public and school libraries.

The article discusses issues on censorship in library collections in the U.S., as of December 2021. Topics include implication of a Facebook event inviting community members to a book burning at the Sportsvalnia County (Virginia) Public Schools board of education meeting on December 13, the removal of the book "Call Me by Your Name" from the collections of all district high schools, and comments from Martha Hutzel, director of the Central Rappahannock Regional Library.

The article presents questions and answers related to book censorship including how to stay hopeful despite seeing a lot of censorship, how to deal with an elementary school principal who has issued many warnings about books used in the classroom that teachers feel threatened and no longer want to read aloud, and how to respond to a fourth grade boy who says his grandmother does not want him reading "Captain Underpants" books.

The article presents pieces of advice on issues related to censorship in libraries. Topics discussed include the move by the principal to ask a group of parents to periodically observe teachers and librarians without talking this over with staff, the complaint of a parent that her son feels judged on what he is reading after his youth minister gave him a list of evil books he should not read, and how to respond to a mother who scrutinizes what book her son selects at the library.

The article discussed censorship of Comics and graphic novels in schools and public libraries. Topics discussed include claims of Organizations such as Moms for Liberty that award winning books often push racial agendas; list of books Moms for Liberty wants to be removed from libraries, including classics like "The Kite Runner", "The Perks of Being a Wallflower", and "Slaughterhouse-Five"; and response of Tina Coleman, membership specialist for the American Library Association.

An introduction to articles in the issue is presented on topics including book-banning in libraries, the cancellation of a planned Drag Queen Bingo program at Downers Grove Public Library in Illinois, and views of some library directors on challenge preparedness.

The article offers information on the fake news and censorship. Topics include, librarians, in general, oppose censorship and dedicated to promoting its opposite, intellectual freedom; listing of intellectual freedom as one of the core values of librarians by American Library Association; and use of fake news as propaganda to isolate individuals or groups of people, destabilize governments and foment anarchy.

The article presents pieces of advice on problems related to library censorship. Topics discussed include how to respond to a mother who requested for a copy of a book that was removed by the director of the public library, concern on the decision of the school principal not to allow a book fair during Children's Book Week, and reason that a collection development policy that includes procedures for dealing with book challenges is so important if it is easy to ignore the procedures.

The article offers advice on problems related to book censorship in libraries in the U.S. Topics include how a library media specialist at a K-8 private school should deal with a student whose parent does not want her son to borrow any books that contain violence, a complaint from the parent of a third grader who borrowed Raina Telgemeier's "Drama," and the pressure being made by the board of trustees for librarians to eliminate the summer reading program.

The article focuses on censorship as a popular issue at the Winter Institute of the American Booksellers Association (ABA) held in Seattle, Washington in February 2023. Topics discussed include ideas and strategies shared by attendees regarding censorship; comments from Brein Lopez, the manager of Children's Book World in Los Angeles; and the need for cooperation between the bookseller and the librarian.

The article presents advice to various problems related to library censorship. Topics include the demand by a school principal to a librarian not to recommend books to students, a complaint by a mother against a children's librarian about the titles in the children's room, and a high school debate about gun violence which uses the library to do research for practice debates and competitions.

The article discusses the issues brought by Banned Books Week and how librarians can make sure the Banned Books message is not lost or misconstrued. Topics include a study published in the July 2019 issue of "The Library Quarterly" that questioned whether the public was clear about the fact that the American Library Association (ALA) does not ban book, background on the Banned Books Week, and reason that many librarians are self-censoring.

The article reports on the censorship of books in the U.S. Efforts to ban or censure books in public libraries and schools has doubled in number, to 116 a year, in the first five years of the 1970s over the last five of the 1960s. The American Library Association has reported an upsurge in censorial pressures on public libraries in 1980. As mentioned, censorship is hazardous to the open flow of ideas that not only nourishes a free society but defines its essence.