The professional program at the 2023 ALA Annual Conference was packed with information to help librarians and advocates battle book bans and other challenges to the freedom to read. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2023-06-27 04:00:00 UTC ]
The ALA’s first-ever Rally for the Right to Read featured librarians and advocates speaking of the need to fight censorship and a keynote from author Ibram X. Kendi, who praised librarians as modern-day freedom fighters. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2023-06-23 04:00:00 UTC ]
Shirts, pins, and stickers promoting banned books and fighting censorship are a great way to keep book bans in the public consciousness.- Rachel Brittain Continue reading >> [ Source: Book Riot | 2023-05-03 10:33:00 UTC ]
Explosive growth in the popularity of manga; librarians organize to fight censorship; and the impact of the book format on comics publishing were among the most-read stories on comics and graphic novels published by 'PW' in 2022. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2023-01-04 05:00:00 UTC ]