Library friends, welcome back. I’m the first to get the massive update. These include the deadly shooting at a California library, censorship updates, and the long battle to fund IMLS. But there is other news here too. there is an upcoming dungeon crawler carl The series adaptation, as well as an AI controversy related to a book award! Then take a look at how Gen Z does and doesn’t use the public library.
library update
- there was a deadly shootout at the Chico branch of the Butte County Library in California, and The American Library Association issued a statement. My heart and thoughts are with everyone affected by this tragedy. It’s a library worker’s worst nightmare. Content warning for gun violence here.
- The latest on the battle to fund the Institute for Museum and Library Services.
- The American Library Association has introduced a proposal Establish a bill of rights for librarians and library workers.
- Illinois Secretary of State Alexi Giannoulias first announced this Statewide Digital Library Resource Program.
- How Gen Z uses (and doesn’t use) public libraries.
censorship news
- Do minors have the right to privacy in the library?
- RELATED: “Won’t Someone Think About the Kids?” Youth Library Cards and Privacy.
- How are books banned? Libraries have been made difficult for adults to navigate.
- Who is winning the book ban battle?
- Texas passed the first state-mandated book list, and It includes a lot of classic literature and Bible passages.
- massachusetts house heavy Voted in support of the new anti-book ban bill.
- Utah bans its 35th book in all public schools: lucky By Alice Sebold. Soon after, he added his 36th book, Stephen King’s Different seasons.
- RELATED: One of the most prolific books banning a school district in Utah, Washington County School District, He may be breaking a new state law By allowing informal complaints from people within the school district (i.e. students, parents of students, or school employees).
awards news
- Ann is receiving the patch 2026 Library of Congress Award for American Fiction.
- Three writers were accused of using AI in their Commonwealth Foundation Short Story Prize-winning works, but have now been acquitted after a months-long investigation. One of the accused writers has won a top Commonwealth award.
book adaptation in news
- Hannah Grace’s hockey romance series, icebreaker, getting a series on netflix.
- Emma Donoghue is writing the script Ava Reed’s feature adaptation lady macbeth.
- Alix E. Harrow everlasting Is Getting a Netflix series.
- Daisy Edgar Jones will star Gabriel Zevin’s Yesterday, and tomorrow, and tomorrow.
- dungeon crawler carl Is Getting a series on Peacock.
- Colleen Hoover is producing Ali Hazlewood’s transformation love, in theory Amazon for MGM.
- Trailer for Clara and the Sun, emotion and sensitivity, practical magic 2And love hypothesis.
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