On the evening of March 14, President Trump launched an assault on libraries by signing the executive order titled Continuing the Reduction of the Federal Bureaucracy. This order, which targets the ...

Books & Books in Coral Gables, Fl. Imagine waking up one day to a targeted smear campaign insinuating that you, a school librarian, are advocating the teaching of anal sex to 11-year-olds. This is ...

The federal government shutdown, which begins today, will have cascading effects across the nation and our economy. For one, it will pause federal programs and slow support for services that many ...

David Leonard is president of the Boston Public Library. Although this is National Library Week, our nation’s libraries find themselves under threat. An executive order is effectively dismantling the ...

My local library was my favorite place as a kid. I would climb the stairs to the second floor children’s section, making a beeline for The Boxcar Children books that were shelved in a model boxcar. I ...

Requests for public libraries to withdraw books in 2023 increased by a record-breaking 92% from the previous year, according to the American Library Association (ALA). School libraries have seen an 11 ...

You might think that an apparently harmless public good like a library would have no enemies. But in the age of Trump, they have many. Activists in the Kentucky State Capitol protesting SB 150, which ...

Before there was high-speed internet in Santo Domingo Pueblo, a tribal community about 40 miles from Albuquerque, New Mexico, leaders would pass around a Verizon hotspot to help run their tribal ...