Lisa Lasch
@lmlasch.bsky.social
Direct sales representative, consultant, curriculum developer helping schools and public libraries integrate print, digital & STEM education products.
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“Librarians serve as defenders of democracy by protecting access, identity and inquiry in schools,” write Allison Cline and Amanda Kordeliski @aaslpres.bsky.social @aaslala.bsky.social @amlibraryassoc.bsky.social @uabookbans.bsky.social
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School libraries are at the heart of democracy - SmartBrief
Librarians serve as defenders of democracy by protecting access, identity and inquiry in schools, write Amanda Kordeliski and Allison Cline.
www.smartbrief.com
November 8, 2025 at 10:00 PM
“Librarians serve as defenders of democracy by protecting access, identity and inquiry in schools,” write Allison Cline and Amanda Kordeliski @aaslpres.bsky.social @aaslala.bsky.social @amlibraryassoc.bsky.social @uabookbans.bsky.social
www.smartbrief.com/original/sch...
www.smartbrief.com/original/sch...
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You should be absolutely outraged by this because it won't be the last time this happens in Texas, where the fight to overturn this stuff has been longer, harder, and louder than most anyone can imagine. No, we don't throw this state under the bus.
WE SHOW UP.
bookriot.com/new-braunfel...
WE SHOW UP.
bookriot.com/new-braunfel...
A Texas District Has Just Banned Students from Secondary School Libraries
In order to ban books from its libraries, New Braunfels Independent School District has just closed its libraries to middle and high schoolers.
bookriot.com
October 15, 2025 at 12:50 PM
You should be absolutely outraged by this because it won't be the last time this happens in Texas, where the fight to overturn this stuff has been longer, harder, and louder than most anyone can imagine. No, we don't throw this state under the bus.
WE SHOW UP.
bookriot.com/new-braunfel...
WE SHOW UP.
bookriot.com/new-braunfel...
I was also told the libraries have been closed down while catalogs are being sifted through, looking for "illicit materials."
“DoDEA is engaging in censorship of legitimate views and opinions that violates the First Amendment rights of those who serve our nation and their families, thereby denying them the very freedoms they have pledged to protect with their lives.”
ALA, AASL decry U.S. Defense Department censorship of schools and libraries on military installations
DoDEA school libraries provide a wealth of information and resources to their communities. By ordering the removal and suppression of learning materials and activities in its schools and libraries, th...
www.ala.org
February 15, 2025 at 3:32 PM
I was also told the libraries have been closed down while catalogs are being sifted through, looking for "illicit materials."
Live this. Inclusion.. you know, the "I" part.
February 7, 2025 at 8:13 PM
Live this. Inclusion.. you know, the "I" part.