Last March, superhero cosplayers, anime-inspired artists, gamers, and geeks of all kinds took over Lake Park High School in Roselle, Illinois, as it hosted its fourth-annual Lake Park Comic Con (LPC-2 ...

When Leigh Knapp became her school’s first full-time media specialist, she had a vision to change the library into a place where kids felt seen and encouraged, and could discover a joy of reading.

Cicely Lewis is a librarian at Meadowcreek High School in Norcross. She is also the 2020 National School Librarian of the Year, founder of Read Woke Inc. and a national voice for greater diversity in ...

Requests to ban books at US public schools and libraries surged to a 21-year record in 2022, according to data from the American Library Association. Last year, the ALA recorded 1,050 requests to ...

Amid a surge in book bans nationwide, the librarian Amanda Jones was targeted by vicious threats. So she decided to fight back. By Alexandra Alter One Sunday morning two years ago, Amanda Jones, a ...

Governor Tim Walz speaks with Sheri Chaffee-Johnson, the librarian at Como Park Senior High School, about the school's library and books that have been targeted for bans. Walz and others are pushing ...

My daughter just finished “Charlotte’s Web.” She didn’t like it. Something about realising the fate of farm pigs. “They were going to turn Wilbur into bacon, mummy!” she cried… as I was cooking her ...

It's hard to miss Sara Ratfliff, the media specialist at Warrington Middle School, when she pushes her cart down the hallway. She converted an old library cart into a mobile library. She calls it the ...

Kensington Health Sciences Academy’s library used to consist of a single cart that students would push through the school’s hallways, trying to find takers for the tiny book collection they managed to ...

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