Jessica Ralli

Mar 14, 2024 | schoollibraryjournal.com | Jessica Ralli |Rachel Payne |Gail Cornwall |Linda L. Ernst

Every year during Banned Books Week, Sheila ­Dickinson, children’s librarian at Richmond (CA) Public Library, has led a banned books story time. “Before I begin reading I tell the kids and families that someone doesn’t want them to read this book.

Mar 14, 2024 | slj.com | Betsy Diamant-Cohen |Rachel Payne |John Scott |Jessica Ralli

Every year during Banned Books Week, Sheila Dickinson, children’s librarian at Richmond (CA) Public Library, has led a banned books story time. “Before I begin reading I tell the kids and families that someone doesn’t want them to read this book.

Jan 11, 2024 | slj.com | Jessica Ralli |Rachel Payne |Margaret Kingsbury |Kathy Ishizuka

Book Publishers, Authors, and Escambia Parents Get 'Major Win' in Book Ban Lawsuit | Pensacola News Journal A federal judge rejected a motion to dismiss a lawsuit alleging the Escambia County school district violated free speech rights through its removal and restriction of school library books. The lawsuit, filed by PEN America, Penguin Random House, five authors, and seven Escambia County parents, asks that all challenged and banned library books be returned to library shelves.

Dec 7, 2023 | slj.com | Kathy Ishizuka |Jessica Ralli |Rachel Payne |Margaret Kingsbury

If there’s one thing librarians can agree on it’s that library education could use some shaking up. Enter the Radical Librarianship Institute (RLI). The audaciously named program has a mission to match. Recipient of a $1.25 million Mellon Foundation grant, RLI strives to “redefine the role of librarians, centering principles of inclusion and social justice” toward developing a “radical and transformational library curriculum,” according to the announcement by UCLA this summer.

Aug 21, 2023 | alreporter.com | Jacob Holmes |Megan Madison |Jessica Ralli |Alice Oseman

Drawing from a nationwide surge in book challenges, the state of Alabama is rapidly becoming embroiled in its own culture war over books. Prattville has been the major battleground in that war, with a group of individuals over the past six months now challenging 44 books, with more expected to come. Out of those 44 challenges, only 10 have worked their way all the way up to the Autauga-Prattville Public Library board so far, and they deal almost exclusively with LGBT content.