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Huntington Beach's $1 Million Censorship Loss and More Library Updates

BOOK RIOT·Katie McLain Horner·17 days ago
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Another week, another smorgasbord of library updates. We have an encouraging censorship update in Huntington Beach, a free book initiative taking place in Bronx bodegas, and funding for Dolly Parton’s Imagination Library. Let’s dive in. Trump’s budget would gut local libraries and museums. Congress is not on board. Related: Trump’s proposed budget threatens library programs in North Carolina. The Dungeon Crawler Carl eBooks will finally be available to library patrons through Libby. Indiana librarians want stable funding for Dolly Parton’s Imagination Library. And honestly, isn’t that really what we all want? The race to save US government datasets before they’re deleted. Censorship Updates PEN America has a new report on the state of book banning in the US, showing that nonfiction book bans have doubled in an embrace of “anti-intellectualism.” “In an encouraging turn, advocates of the right to read are noticing signs that legal pushback and public pressure are influencing state legislatures.…

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