Society of Secret Library Friends

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Book cover for “deal with it!”

The book he’s holding in the picture is “Deal With It!” a 1999 sex education book published by gURL.com, a website for teen girls heavily associated with zine culture and third-wave feminism that stood in contrast to the glossy and perfect teen magazines of the 1990s.

Sheriff scopes out explicit library books Kootenai County Sheriff Bob Norris said he has heard from both sides about reportedly inappropriate materials available to youth at local libraries.

This year for Banned Books Week, an Idaho sheriff has provided an amazing real life example of censorship that will help librarians across the state teach about the freedom to read cdapress.com/news/2023/se...

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The freedoms to read, write, inquire, learn, and create are essential to the mission of public schools and libraries and fundamental elements of a free, informed, and educated citizenry.

Pete Bromberg, Sy Montgomery and Katherine Towler: The overwhelming cost of book banning BOOK CHALLENGES in libraries are nothing new, but until recently they generally involved a single title, in a single library, being filed by one person. Such challenges are best handled

“The bombarding of our local libraries with book challenges comes at a high cost. It is a cost burden that is borne by all taxpayers, yet it is being driven by very few people who are not representative of the majority of Americans who oppose book banning.” www.unionleader.com/opinion/op-e...

Mormons Don’t Ban Books I remember a small handful of occasions sitting in sacrament meeting as a teenager and listening to a talk where the speaker mentioned that they had requested that their child be excused from readi…

“Even those with sincere objections to books’ content are eliminating others’ agency to choose for themselves. They’re eliminating those students’ access to experience that will allow them to grow, to understand experiences and perspectives other than their own.” bycommonconsent.com/2023/09/19/m...

These states had more than 100 titles challenged between January 1 and August 31, 2023: Colorado, Connecticut, Florida, Idaho, Missouri, North Carolina, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Tennessee, Texas, and Virginia. Graphic made by the Office for Intellectual Freedom, American Library Association.

We’re in the top ten, folks! More than 100 different book titles were challenged in Idaho in the last 8 months.