- Go, readers! A quick round-up of news about people fighting back against efforts to ban books:
- In Missouri (New Yorker)
- In Idaho (Idaho Statesman)
- In Florida (Los Angeles Times)
- In Pennsylvania (LNP Lancaster Online)
- Breanne McIvor shares some obnoxious questions people have asked her about Trinidad and her works, revealing that folks have some really dumb ideas about Caribbean nations. (LitHub)
- Molly Templeton reminisces about the libraries she’s built over the years. Sadly, I don’t have many of my childhood books anymore—too many moves over the years. (Tor)
- Pair with: Nasser Al-Dhafiri and Nashwa Nasreldin on rebuilding libraries and books lost to war and moving and more. (LitHub)
- Medar de la Cruz reveals what it’s like being a librarian at Rikers Island. (New Yorker)
- Arvyn Cerézo takes issue with book recommendation algorithms. (Book Riot)
- The Library of Congress just finished digitizing the Yongle Encyclopedia—at least what’s left of it since it was finished around the beginning of the fifteenth century. (Library of Congress)
- Anthony Aycock recounts Island Trees Union Free School District No. 26 v. Pico, a school book-banning case that went all the way to the Supreme Court in the late 1970s. (Washington Post)
- Helen Davidson reports that books about Tiananmen Square and other topics are being removed from Hong Kong libraries. (The Guardian)
- Moses Maimonides had really good handwriting. Stuart Roberts has the evidence from Cambridge University Library’s Genizah Research Unit. Also, geniza are fascinating! (University of Cambridge)
- …and some censorship news, curated by the good people at Book Riot: May 12 and May 19
