JAMESTOWN — A North Dakota law that required public libraries to review their collections for “explicit sexual material” has cost a Jamestown library $54,500 in staff hours. Jamestown librarians ...

Books are displayed at the Banned Book Library at American Stage in St. Petersburg, Fla., on Feb. 18, 2023. (Jefferee Woo/Tampa Bay Times via AP) RALEIGH, N.C. (CN) — The North Carolina House passed a ...

A fight is brewing at a Northern Michigan public library over an effort to restrict a young adult graphic novel. The Bellaire Public Library is holding a public hearing Friday, Nov. 15, to consider a ...

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A new bill approved by a state House committee on Tuesday aims to ban school library books depicting sexual activity and those considered pervasively vulgar.House Bill 636 would create committees and ...

The Fairhope Library Board is hopeful that after reviewing 15 challenged books in recent months, and reshelving five of them to adult sections, they will get their state funding restored. But a member ...

A former Wyoming library director who was fired amid an uproar over books with sexual content and LGBTQ+ themes will receive $700,000 after settling a lawsuit. Terri Lesley was fired as the library ...

PARMA, Ohio (WOIO) - A Cuyahoga County mother is calling on the Cuyahoga County Public Library to relocate a children’s book she says contains graphic sexual imagery. Hilary Jackson, chair of the ...