New Book Ban Targets and Strategies, Plus More Library News

Booksology September 21, 2025 Blog

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Katie’s parents never told her “no” when she asked for a book. That was the beginning of most of her problems. She has MLIS at the University of Illinois and works full-time as Distribution & Reference Manager for Illinois. She has love deeply rooted in everything that is in the way, twisted, and horrifying, and has great joy in sneaking up on her colleagues. When she’s not at work, she’s in the house watching Cubs along with her cat and her cardigan collection. Other hobbies include scrapbooking, introducing more readers to the Tana French church, and convincing her husband that he could actually fit more books on her shelves. Twitter: @kt_librarylady

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Censorship News

Do the following books ban targeting? Romance novel.
Furthermore, the dangerous legal strategy that comes for our books: Prohibition of books as a form of protected government speech.
How is the book fueled by the devil’s panic banned in America?
The vague language of the book ban law has bumped into art history books because of its portrayal of nude.
Censorship posts that revisit once the new school year begins.
Some Texas school districts are fighting the state’s book ban.
Under threat from the state, Florida public schools have banned more than 55 of these books without reviews.
“A last year’s report from the Florida State Board of Education shows that the majority of the hundreds of books removed from public school libraries for review have returned that there are restrictions on age and parental consent.”
New New Hampshire law makes children’s public library records available to parents, thereby erasing the child’s privacy rights under the patronage confidentiality law.
The Maryland Education Inspector’s Office raised concerns about the Somerset County Public Schools Education Board. Board members choose and approve of purchasing new books rather than trained librarians.
Voters in Alabama Fairhope largely rejected candidates for conservative library trustees during the August 26 election.
“According to documents obtained by St. Louis Pacific Radio, the Francis Howell School District (MO) paid a conservative consultant a fee of thousands of dollars for services not approved by the school board or district.” Jordan Adams of JC Adams Consulting offers a service to review the K-12 curriculum and material for age-appropriate content.
The Shelbyville (Ky) Church encourages members to check out LGBTQ+ books from public libraries and check out them from public libraries with the intention of calling them “an act of civil disobedience.” This is gloss in itself, but the gloss is a feature image of the article. Stop giving these people legitimacy.
“The Wyoming Legislature is considering a bill that would remove the younger adults and teen sections of public libraries, calling them unnecessary and harmful to the state’s youth.”
Penguin’s Random House is pushing forward the lawsuit against Idaho’s ban on writing law.
Long Beach Public Library (CA) will open an e-book collection for teens across the country as part of the book.
The Edmonton Public School District has removed more than 200 library books to comply with recent state directives relating to ban books with “inappropriate sexual content.” Or are they? Margaret Atwood wrote a strict Twitter post in response to the directive, but now the government has suspended the ban “until further notice.”