MEMPHIS, Tenn.—A shooting at a Tennessee library on Thursday left one person dead and a police officer critically wounded, authorities said. Officers were called to the Poplar-White Station Public Library around 12:30 p.m., where they encountered a man who had been the subject of a trespassing call in the same neighborhood about thirty minutes earlier,…

A 300-year-old library chamber in the educational epicenter of Dublin, Ireland, has become world-famous for its stunning interior and treasure trove of rare titles, some of them over a century old. For book lovers of all ages, both the collection and the setting are the stuff of fairy tales. The Long Room at the Old Library…

General Motors (GM) provided a grant to a pro-transgender organization that supplies kindergarten and elementary classrooms with children’s books that support its ideology. The Detroit-based automaker made a donation last year to the Gay Lesbian and Straight Education Network’s (GLSEN) “Rainbow Library” Program, according to its 2021 Social Impact Report (pdf). The pro-transgender organization is known…

Parents in southern Manitoba are advocating for the funding to public libraries in seven municipalities to be cut if they will not remove books written for children and youth that contain explicit sexual content from the shelves in South Central regional libraries. Parent David Wall gave a presentation at the City of Winkler Council Meeting…

Parents in southern Manitoba are advocating for the funding to public libraries in seven municipalities to be cut if they will not remove books written for children and youth that contain explicit sexual content from the shelves in South Central regional libraries. Parent David Wall gave a presentation at the City of Winkler Council Meeting…

Parents in southern Manitoba are advocating for the funding to public libraries in seven municipalities to be cut if they will not remove books written for children and youth that contain explicit sexual content from the shelves in South Central regional libraries. Parent David Wall gave a presentation at the City of Winkler Council Meeting…

The library of the University of Hong Kong (HKU) has introduced a new reservation system for the Special Collections department. Readers must make an appointment and register before browsing the books in that section. Readers who wish to scan, photocopy, or photograph materials in the Special Collections department, must first fill out a form explaining…

A Texas state representative and local parents say they’ve battled mostly “woke” school board trustees for almost a year to remove sexually explicit books from their city’s school libraries. “It’s been a very long story and a very big fight,” State Rep. Jared Patterson, a Republican from Frisco, told The Epoch Times. Patterson said he…

Commentary Public libraries are intended to be taxpayer-sponsored facilities for the education of our citizens—children as well as adults: a place for reflection and for gaining knowledge.   At least, that’s the way they were when I was growing up. Maybe not so much anymore. Lately, they seem to have been commandeered for other purposes. That…

Parents in Katy, Texas, are pushing school libraries to remove books with sexual content, including one with step-by-step instructions on how to have gay sex and use sex apps to find partners. The book was featured on The Katy Railway, an Instagram site fighting to remove sexualized content from schools in the highly-rated Katy ISD…