“Harmful to Minors”: What does Nex Benedict have to do with book bans?

Democracies need libraries. Since their inception, libraries have served as pivotal community institutions upholding, strengthening, and realizing some of the most fundamental democratic ideals of our society. Libraries are the only American institutions that make knowledge, ideas, and information freely available to all citizens. They are where people can find differing opinions on controversial questions …

Independence Day Collection Audit?

I was prompted by this new "threat" called a "First Amendment Audit" (basically, as it concerns public libraries, an excuse for conservatives to visit a library, some for the first time in their lives, and be rude to librarians, whom they presuppose with a high degree of accuracy to be liberals) to build a collection …