Highlights

• When it happens to you | American Libraries
• Viewing anime censorship at your library | Intellectual Freedom Blog
• American Library Association to Host Inaugural Governance Institute at 2023 LibLearnX
• ALA invites applications for $3.5 million in grants as part of Libraries Transforming Communities: Accessible Small and Rural Communities
• Hohl, Suess Seek American Library Association Presidency for 2024-25 Term

Censorship

• ‘It must be stopped’: ACLU issues warning on book bans in Michigan schools | Detroit Free Press (MI)
  • ACLU letter to Michigan’s public school districts: Support LGBTQ+ students and the First Amendment, not censorship and book-banning | ACLU of Michigan
• Anti-LGBTQ groups are helping enforce a ‘book ban’ law in Florida | VICE (FL)
• Arlington Public Library advisory board compromises on LGBTQ Pride Month displays | KERA (TX)
• Facing another book challenge, library board votes to retain title | Flathead Beacon (MT)
• South Carolina county could restrict children’s books on sex | Midland Daily News (SC)
  • Greenville Co. council votes against moving certain books from children’s section of libraries | WSPA (SC)
  • Greenville County council declines to usurp library board’s power to limit book access | Post and Courier (SC)
  • Republican book banning attempt defeated after community stands up for LGBTQ people | LGBTQIA Nation (SC)
• Longview ISD superintendent discusses how library books are regulated | KLTV (TX)
• After ‘sexualization’ controversy, Gillette Public Library cuts ties with American Library Association | Cowboy State Daily (WY)
• LR5 removes children’s book celebrating Black history from libraries after complaint | The State (SC)
• A reporter’s memoir of her jail time gets banned in Florida prisons | NPR (FL)
• Mt. Shasta parents outraged over sexually explicit book | Action News Now (CA)
• Llano County Library in federal court case over removed books | KXAN (TX)
  • Witnesses testify in case surrounding controversial Llano County library books | CBS Austin (TX)
• Nearly 100 books pulled from Beaufort school libraries for review of possible adult content | Island Packet (SC)
• ‘Lawn Boy’ removed from one school, under review at two others | Hendersonville Standard (TN)
• Library denies book ban request | Capitol Journal (SD)
• RSU 40 board votes to keep ‘Gender Queer’ in MVHS library after second appeal | Lincoln County News (ME)
• Batesburg-Leesville school book removal helps inspire SC coalition against book bans | Lexington County Chronicle (SC)
• Off the shelves; What SB1224 looks like in Rockwood, parkway school districts | West Newsmagazine (MO)
• How a national book-banning trend erupted at the Lincolnwood library, with pushback aimed at LGBTQ materials | Lincolnwood Review (IL)
• ‘Guidelines, not book bans’ | Journal Inquirer (CT)
• Maury County Public Library faces controversy following Pride Month book display | WTVF (TN)
• NLISD board denies book grievance complaint | Paris News (TX)
• Owasso school board upholds ban against parent after efforts to remove book from library | KTUL (OK)
• LGBTQ+ book ban at Bay City Western High School denied by school board | Michigan Live (MI)
• Challenged book ‘Perks of Being a Wallflower’ removed from Escambia Schools for sexual content | NorthEscambia.com (FL)
• Spruce Mountain book decision to be appealed Nov. 10 | Central Maine (ME)
• People in Parkersburg share concerns over library; appropriate materials and possible censorship | WTAP (WV)
  • Parkersburg City Council withdraws library censure resolution | Marietta Times (WV)
• Right-wing legislators admit editing audio used in Fox News report attacking SC schools | Post and Courier (SC)
• Angry Parsippany residents sound off on crime, library closure, labor agreements | Daily Record (NJ)
• Flagler schools have been quietly banning or ‘removing’ many books since summer in bow to ‘Moms for Liberty’ | Flagler Live (FL)
• Broward schools memo on banning and restricting library books spurs controversy | South Florida Sun Sentinel (FL)
• School board discusses format of committee to review book policy | Powell Tribune (WY)
• Maine parents react to pornographic school books in new ad | Maine Wire (ME)
• Moms for Liberty banned book list–The novels they want taken out of schools | Newsweek
• RSU1 board votes to keep transgender book at Woolwich Central School | Portland Press Herald (ME)
• Book deemed ‘obscene,’ removed from two high schools | Hendersonville Standard (TN)
• HASD teacher accused of bringing ‘controversial’ book to class; superintendent responds | WJAC (PA)
• Request to ban books at Bay City Western High school denied by school board | MLive.com (MI)

Privacy & Cybersecurity

• America’s Ring doorbell camera obsession highlights the scourge of mass surveillance | NBC News
• Colorado AG publishes draft Colorado Privacy Act rules | Lexology

First Amendment, Free Speech, & Civil Liberties

• How America turned against the First Amendment | Verge
• Judge curbs actions of election-monitoring group in Arizona | New York Times
• School librarian continues defamation law suit; champions First Amendment rights of all | Flashnews11
• Tennessee county under fire for adding ‘Judeo-Christian’ preamble to official document | Tennessean
• United States of America Pageants has First Amendment right to exclude transgender women, court says | Reason
• Teachers face limits on their election-related speech | Freedom Forum
• Amy Coney Barrett and the freedom to read | National Coalition Against Censorship
• Publisher says it’s committed to Amy Coney Barrett book despite opposition | The Hill

Academic Freedom & Campus Speech

• Protest ban at Florida university after anti-Sasse rally | Star Tribune / AP
  • Florida trustees select Sasse as president | Inside Higher Ed
• Florida’s ‘Stop WOKE’ Act and the outrage of public university professors | First Amendment Watch
• Inside the academic freedom crisis that roiled Florida’s flagship | Chronicle of Higher Ed
• Collin College professor reinstated at school in free speech lawsuit settlement | Texas Tribune

Legislation

• More than ‘Don’t Say Gay’: Proposed national bill is latest move in fight over LGBTQ+ rights | Teen Vogue
• Kari Lake wants an AZ law banning Big Tech ‘censorship’ of conservatives | A to Z

State and Local Governance

• National political group wades into Bentonville School Board races with claims of indoctrination | Northwest Arkansas Democrat Gazette (AR)
• Half of 18 Southern gubernatorial candidates support classroom censorship policies | K-12 Dive
• Michigan GOP candidate Tudor Dixon wants a new book ban: No divorced characters | Salon (MI)
• Book banning resonates as an issue in Maryland school board races | Maryland Reporter
• Florida school board politics heat up as election day nears | Tampa Bay Times
• As stakes rise, state supreme courts become crucial election battlegrounds | New York Times
• The anti-CRT slate of Hamilton Southeastern school board candidates | IndyStar
• The slate of anti-CRT school board candidates for Noblesville schools | IndyStar
• Book banning resonates as an issue in Maryland school board races | Maryland Reporter
• Dearborn divisions over LGBTQ books spur national debate as candidates compete for votes | Detroit Free Press
• Some Oklahoma teachers say they’re ‘walking on eggshells.’ Will this one midterm race help? | PBS

Net Neutrality & Broadband Access

• Champaign County libraries address ‘digital divide’ through technology trainer | Springfield News-Sun

Social Media

• Elon Musk manages free speech versus ‘hellscape’ at Twitter | Reuters
• What if Rumble is the future of the social web? | Atlantic

Information Literacy & Disinformation

• Letters, tweets, TV: how midterm disinformation has washed over Pennsylvania | New York Times
• How US election conspiracy film fueled drop box surveillance | Barron’s
• The art of hitting disinformation where it lives | WIRED
• For cyber experts, disinformation overshadows cyberthreats in midterms | Washington Post
• Prominent conservatives share online disinformation about Paul Pelosi assault | Politico
  • With falsehoods and ridicule about Pelosi attack, Republicans mimic Trump | New York Times
  • Fog of disinformation spreads after Pelosi attack | Politico
• Leaked docs show Facebook made portal for feds to report misinfo, report says | WPDE
• Reporter creates social media accounts for fake Americans to show ‘how we’re being targeted’ with disinformation | CBS News

International

• In Xi’s China, even internal reports fall prey to censorship | ABC News
• What is the future of China’s surveillance state? | Slate

Around the Web

• Americans remain divided on education-related topics | CBS Austin
  • Parents Differ Sharply by Party Over What Their K-12 Children Should Learn in School: But majorities of both Republican and Democratic parents are satisfied with the quality of their children’s education | Pew Research Center
• In Some School Districts, Parent Complaints Over Books Were More Bark Than Bite | D Magazine
• A visit to the Banned-Book Bus with a scholar who helped develop critical race theory | TIME
• Love Your Library? Vote with Your Feet | Moscow-Pullman Daily News
• How drag queen performances got pulled into politics | Oregon Public Broadcasting
• Orlando-area Drag Queen Story Hour canceled due to neo-Nazi threats | Orlando Weekly
• The untold story of ‘Russiagate’ and the road to war in Ukraine | New York Times Magazine
• The right-wing mothers fueling the school-board wars | New Yorker
• Opinion: The school library used to be a sanctuary. Now it’s a battleground | CNN
• Fired Kingsland librarian files wrongful termination complaint | Daily Trib (TX)
• ‘This is going to take some time’: latest in the legal battle over Spotsylvania superintendent | 7News (VA)
• Student launches banned book club at a North Texas school where books have been removed | WFAA (TX)

ALA News

• ALA Nominating Committee announces councilors-at-large candidates
• New report outlines how policymakers can scale library successes to advance digital equity
• More than 50 Representatives urge support for library facilities in FY 2023 appropriations bill
• New research examines school librarians’ involvement in online teaching and learning practices during COVID-19 pandemic
• New from ACRL – “The Data Literacy Cookbook”
• AASL Commends All Ready Access Program/Schlow to School
• Dayton Metro Library and the University of Dayton chosen as the site of the 2023 Children’s Literature Lecture Award featuring Bryan Collier
• Nominations Open for 2023 Jean E. Coleman Library Outreach Lecturer
• Technical services training and development
• Core launches new mentoring program

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