OPINION: Book bans draw libraries into damaging culture wars that undermine their purpose

Image credit: Michal Jarmoluk via Pixabay. Article by Lisa R. Varga. The Hechinger Report – May 6, 2025.

For the last four years, school and public libraries have been drawn into a culture war that seeks to censor, limit and discredit diverse perspectives. Yet time and time again, as librarians have been encouraged or even directed to remove books that include LGBTQ+, Black, Latino and Indigenous characters or themes or history from their collections, they have said no. When librarians said no, policy changes were submitted and laws were proposed — all in the name of controlling the library collection. […]

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