ALA Intellectual Freedom Round Table
@ifrt-ala.bsky.social
Promoting discussion on library intellectual freedom, facilitating communication, encouraging ALA member involvement, and fostering responsibility in policy implementation.
https://www.ala.org/ifrt
https://www.ala.org/ifrt
Join IFRT for a virtual author talk and Q&A with Adam Szetela, author of That Book Is Dangerous!. He explores the impacts on literary freedom, the techniques used to mitigate controversy, and the broader cultural forces driving censorship.
Excerpt: bit.ly/4oSjt59
Register: bit.ly/4pea4UY
Excerpt: bit.ly/4oSjt59
Register: bit.ly/4pea4UY
November 20, 2025 at 5:35 PM
Join IFRT for a virtual author talk and Q&A with Adam Szetela, author of That Book Is Dangerous!. He explores the impacts on literary freedom, the techniques used to mitigate controversy, and the broader cultural forces driving censorship.
Excerpt: bit.ly/4oSjt59
Register: bit.ly/4pea4UY
Excerpt: bit.ly/4oSjt59
Register: bit.ly/4pea4UY
We're soliciting nominations for articles on the topic of intellectual freedom.
You can find more details and the submission form at the Oboler Award website.
Submissions are due by January 30, 2026.
www.ala.org/ifrt/oboler
You can find more details and the submission form at the Oboler Award website.
Submissions are due by January 30, 2026.
www.ala.org/ifrt/oboler
November 14, 2025 at 5:31 AM
We're soliciting nominations for articles on the topic of intellectual freedom.
You can find more details and the submission form at the Oboler Award website.
Submissions are due by January 30, 2026.
www.ala.org/ifrt/oboler
You can find more details and the submission form at the Oboler Award website.
Submissions are due by January 30, 2026.
www.ala.org/ifrt/oboler
November 11, 2025 at 5:07 PM
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Our #FirstAmendment & civil rights are under attack #TLSky #EduSky, pls make time to read 10/31/25 @ifrt-ala.bsky.social #IntellectualFreedom News: #censorship, #1stAmendment /civil rights, academic freedom/student speech, legislation @amlibraryassoc.bsky.social news. www.oif.ala.org/intellectual...
Intellectual Freedom News 10/24/2025
ALA actively advocates and educates in defense of intellectual freedom—the rights of library users to read, seek information, and speak freely as guaranteed by the First Amendment. Intellectual freedo...
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November 4, 2025 at 12:17 AM
Our #FirstAmendment & civil rights are under attack #TLSky #EduSky, pls make time to read 10/31/25 @ifrt-ala.bsky.social #IntellectualFreedom News: #censorship, #1stAmendment /civil rights, academic freedom/student speech, legislation @amlibraryassoc.bsky.social news. www.oif.ala.org/intellectual...
Remember to come hang out with us this Friday!
It's almost time to join the round tables of ALA for interactive sessions about intellectual freedom, popular media, moral panic, and conversations about how libraries work to protect the freedom to read.
Friday, October 24, 2025
10:00a - 4:30p Central
youtube.com/@ALAGameRT
www.twitch.tv/ALAGameRT
Friday, October 24, 2025
10:00a - 4:30p Central
youtube.com/@ALAGameRT
www.twitch.tv/ALAGameRT
October 23, 2025 at 1:47 AM
Remember to come hang out with us this Friday!
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Victory in Texas, as judge rules in our favor to stop enforcement of HB900, the mandatory government ratings law that seeks to impose a new Comics Code for graphic novels and other books distributed to schools. cbldf.org/2025/10/rate...
October 22, 2025 at 8:49 PM
Victory in Texas, as judge rules in our favor to stop enforcement of HB900, the mandatory government ratings law that seeks to impose a new Comics Code for graphic novels and other books distributed to schools. cbldf.org/2025/10/rate...
Join IFRT Reads on Oct. 28, 7–8 p.m. ET, for a conversation on The Fight Against Book Bans with editor Shannon Oltmann and chapter authors Glen Benedict & Jenna Kammer. Select chapters will be available to IFRT members in the IFRT Reads Community on Connect:
connect.ala.org/ifrt/communi....
connect.ala.org/ifrt/communi....
October 18, 2025 at 2:46 AM
Join IFRT Reads on Oct. 28, 7–8 p.m. ET, for a conversation on The Fight Against Book Bans with editor Shannon Oltmann and chapter authors Glen Benedict & Jenna Kammer. Select chapters will be available to IFRT members in the IFRT Reads Community on Connect:
connect.ala.org/ifrt/communi....
connect.ala.org/ifrt/communi....
It's almost time to join the round tables of ALA for interactive sessions about intellectual freedom, popular media, moral panic, and conversations about how libraries work to protect the freedom to read.
Friday, October 24, 2025
10:00a - 4:30p Central
youtube.com/@ALAGameRT
www.twitch.tv/ALAGameRT
Friday, October 24, 2025
10:00a - 4:30p Central
youtube.com/@ALAGameRT
www.twitch.tv/ALAGameRT
October 15, 2025 at 3:50 AM
It's almost time to join the round tables of ALA for interactive sessions about intellectual freedom, popular media, moral panic, and conversations about how libraries work to protect the freedom to read.
Friday, October 24, 2025
10:00a - 4:30p Central
youtube.com/@ALAGameRT
www.twitch.tv/ALAGameRT
Friday, October 24, 2025
10:00a - 4:30p Central
youtube.com/@ALAGameRT
www.twitch.tv/ALAGameRT
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Why ban books when you can ban the entire library?
New Braunfels ISD has frozen library purchase orders & closed secondary campus libraries following a harassment campaign by Libs of Tik Tok & other out of district extremists.
bookriot.com/new-braunfel...
New Braunfels ISD has frozen library purchase orders & closed secondary campus libraries following a harassment campaign by Libs of Tik Tok & other out of district extremists.
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 14, 2025 at 4:18 PM
Why ban books when you can ban the entire library?
New Braunfels ISD has frozen library purchase orders & closed secondary campus libraries following a harassment campaign by Libs of Tik Tok & other out of district extremists.
bookriot.com/new-braunfel...
New Braunfels ISD has frozen library purchase orders & closed secondary campus libraries following a harassment campaign by Libs of Tik Tok & other out of district extremists.
bookriot.com/new-braunfel...
Tomorrow is the big day!
We’re asking everyone to take at least one action to help defend books from censorship and to stand up for the library staff, educators, writers, publishers, and booksellers who make them available!
For ideas on how you can help visit:
bannedbooksweek.org/let-freedom-...
We’re asking everyone to take at least one action to help defend books from censorship and to stand up for the library staff, educators, writers, publishers, and booksellers who make them available!
For ideas on how you can help visit:
bannedbooksweek.org/let-freedom-...
October 10, 2025 at 9:01 PM
Tomorrow is the big day!
We’re asking everyone to take at least one action to help defend books from censorship and to stand up for the library staff, educators, writers, publishers, and booksellers who make them available!
For ideas on how you can help visit:
bannedbooksweek.org/let-freedom-...
We’re asking everyone to take at least one action to help defend books from censorship and to stand up for the library staff, educators, writers, publishers, and booksellers who make them available!
For ideas on how you can help visit:
bannedbooksweek.org/let-freedom-...
Did you know that you can join IFRT for as little as $15 by adding us to your ALA Membership? Student Members only pay $5!
No better time than now to sign up than during #BannedBooksWeek !
Find out more here:
www.ala.org/ifrt/members...
No better time than now to sign up than during #BannedBooksWeek !
Find out more here:
www.ala.org/ifrt/members...
October 10, 2025 at 1:21 AM
Did you know that you can join IFRT for as little as $15 by adding us to your ALA Membership? Student Members only pay $5!
No better time than now to sign up than during #BannedBooksWeek !
Find out more here:
www.ala.org/ifrt/members...
No better time than now to sign up than during #BannedBooksWeek !
Find out more here:
www.ala.org/ifrt/members...
What's Your Freedom to Read Advocate Personality?
Take the Quiz here:
quiz.tryinteract.com#/68d400f64d6...
Take the Quiz here:
quiz.tryinteract.com#/68d400f64d6...
October 7, 2025 at 4:37 PM
What's Your Freedom to Read Advocate Personality?
Take the Quiz here:
quiz.tryinteract.com#/68d400f64d6...
Take the Quiz here:
quiz.tryinteract.com#/68d400f64d6...
It's #BannedBooksWeek!
Do you plan on reading a book on the list this year?
Drop it in the comments below!
Do you plan on reading a book on the list this year?
Drop it in the comments below!
The Average Age of America's Most-Banned Books Is Older Than a High School Senior: Book Censorship News, October 3, 2025
The average age of the most banned books in America is higher than the young people those bans seek to "protect."
bookriot.com
October 6, 2025 at 11:32 PM
It's #BannedBooksWeek!
Do you plan on reading a book on the list this year?
Drop it in the comments below!
Do you plan on reading a book on the list this year?
Drop it in the comments below!
It's almost here! Banned Books Week starts TOMORROW!
Use this calendar to find all of the events happening near you:
bannedbooksweek.org/events/
Use this calendar to find all of the events happening near you:
bannedbooksweek.org/events/
October 4, 2025 at 6:05 PM
It's almost here! Banned Books Week starts TOMORROW!
Use this calendar to find all of the events happening near you:
bannedbooksweek.org/events/
Use this calendar to find all of the events happening near you:
bannedbooksweek.org/events/
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Join us in Orlando on Nov. 1 for The Book Ban Fight: From Stories to Strategy — a one-day convening designed to strengthen our coalition, map the threats, and build the tools we need to resist educational censorship in Florida. www.eventbrite.com/e/the-book-b...
September 29, 2025 at 10:20 PM
Join us in Orlando on Nov. 1 for The Book Ban Fight: From Stories to Strategy — a one-day convening designed to strengthen our coalition, map the threats, and build the tools we need to resist educational censorship in Florida. www.eventbrite.com/e/the-book-b...
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I made a free printable bookmark you can use for any banned books week (or before or after!) displays, books, etc., that gives people *action items* for defending the right to read.
buttondown.com/wellsourced/...
buttondown.com/wellsourced/...
A Free Printable Bookmark About Book Censorship
Print these free bookmarks to help engage your friends, family, and community in the fight against book bans.
buttondown.com
September 28, 2025 at 12:34 PM
I made a free printable bookmark you can use for any banned books week (or before or after!) displays, books, etc., that gives people *action items* for defending the right to read.
buttondown.com/wellsourced/...
buttondown.com/wellsourced/...
Need some graphics to promote #BannedBooksWeek ?
We have you covered!
The link contains posters, bookmarks, social media graphics, and MORE!
bannedbooksweek.org/promotional-...
We have you covered!
The link contains posters, bookmarks, social media graphics, and MORE!
bannedbooksweek.org/promotional-...
September 27, 2025 at 3:54 PM
Need some graphics to promote #BannedBooksWeek ?
We have you covered!
The link contains posters, bookmarks, social media graphics, and MORE!
bannedbooksweek.org/promotional-...
We have you covered!
The link contains posters, bookmarks, social media graphics, and MORE!
bannedbooksweek.org/promotional-...
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George Takei was named honorary chair of #BannedBooksWeek! Who saw his keynote speech at our Annual Convention in Baltimore?
As a longtime member of the @bannedbooksweek.bsky.social Coalition, NCTE supports the right to read during Banned Books Week and every day. Get involved: bannedbooksweek.org
As a longtime member of the @bannedbooksweek.bsky.social Coalition, NCTE supports the right to read during Banned Books Week and every day. Get involved: bannedbooksweek.org
September 22, 2025 at 3:33 PM
George Takei was named honorary chair of #BannedBooksWeek! Who saw his keynote speech at our Annual Convention in Baltimore?
As a longtime member of the @bannedbooksweek.bsky.social Coalition, NCTE supports the right to read during Banned Books Week and every day. Get involved: bannedbooksweek.org
As a longtime member of the @bannedbooksweek.bsky.social Coalition, NCTE supports the right to read during Banned Books Week and every day. Get involved: bannedbooksweek.org
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Join EveryLibrary for Constitution Day 2025 on Weds 9/17 for a day of conversations with Colleen Shogan, Dan Novack, Joe Caiazzo, Stephana Ferrell, and Casey Burgat.
Full schedule:
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Full schedule:
buff.ly/7Ld0QcL
Constitution Day 2025 Conversations on EveryLibrary Live!
Wednesday, September 17 | Streaming All Day on Facebook Live & YouTube Live
everylibrary.org
September 15, 2025 at 7:01 PM
Join EveryLibrary for Constitution Day 2025 on Weds 9/17 for a day of conversations with Colleen Shogan, Dan Novack, Joe Caiazzo, Stephana Ferrell, and Casey Burgat.
Full schedule:
buff.ly/7Ld0QcL
Full schedule:
buff.ly/7Ld0QcL
Didn't get a chance to see The Librarians at the ALA Conference in Philly?
It's about to get a wider release!
bookriot.com/the-libraria...
It's about to get a wider release!
bookriot.com/the-libraria...
Award-Winning THE LIBRARIANS Documentary Sets Widespread Release
The award-winning documentary THE LIBRARIANS, which explores contemporary book bans and attacks on librarians, to release nationwide.
bookriot.com
September 9, 2025 at 4:06 PM
Didn't get a chance to see The Librarians at the ALA Conference in Philly?
It's about to get a wider release!
bookriot.com/the-libraria...
It's about to get a wider release!
bookriot.com/the-libraria...
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Sign the petition against book bans at www.bookbanpetition.us
September 6, 2025 at 9:51 PM
Sign the petition against book bans at www.bookbanpetition.us
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Just two weeks ago, I wrote about the lie being spread in states like Florida and Texas that draconian book censorship legislation is meant to allow "local control." By "local control," lawmakers mean they get to decide how to control local institutions. 1/4
bookriot.com/the-lie-of-l...
bookriot.com/the-lie-of-l...
The Lie of "Local Control," as Texas and Florida Signal What's Next in Book Censorship: Book Censorship News, August 8, 2025
The actions Florida and Texas legislation is taking to target school libraries showcase what's to come nationwide. It's not "local control."
bookriot.com
August 29, 2025 at 10:33 AM
Just two weeks ago, I wrote about the lie being spread in states like Florida and Texas that draconian book censorship legislation is meant to allow "local control." By "local control," lawmakers mean they get to decide how to control local institutions. 1/4
bookriot.com/the-lie-of-l...
bookriot.com/the-lie-of-l...
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The next target of book banners? Romance books.
The where, when, how, and why of romance books being the next step in the process of dismantling literacy and institutions of democracy.
bookriot.com/the-next-boo...
The where, when, how, and why of romance books being the next step in the process of dismantling literacy and institutions of democracy.
bookriot.com/the-next-boo...
The Next Book Ban Target? Romance: Book Censorship News, August 22, 2025
Where and how romance books will become the next targets of book banners. That, plus this week's roundup of book censorship news.
bookriot.com
August 22, 2025 at 12:22 PM
The next target of book banners? Romance books.
The where, when, how, and why of romance books being the next step in the process of dismantling literacy and institutions of democracy.
bookriot.com/the-next-boo...
The where, when, how, and why of romance books being the next step in the process of dismantling literacy and institutions of democracy.
bookriot.com/the-next-boo...
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Here are the 55+ books that Florida school districts are removing from shelves without review, thanks to threats from the state.
This is a flagrant violation of their own state statutes, and what we know only represents districts *saying* they're doing this.
bookriot.com/55-books-ban...
This is a flagrant violation of their own state statutes, and what we know only represents districts *saying* they're doing this.
bookriot.com/55-books-ban...
Under Threat from State, Florida Public Schools Are Banning These 55+ Books Without Review
Florida doesn't maintain a state-sanctioned list of banned books, but the state is pressuring schools to remove these 55 books without review.
bookriot.com
August 11, 2025 at 1:04 PM
Here are the 55+ books that Florida school districts are removing from shelves without review, thanks to threats from the state.
This is a flagrant violation of their own state statutes, and what we know only represents districts *saying* they're doing this.
bookriot.com/55-books-ban...
This is a flagrant violation of their own state statutes, and what we know only represents districts *saying* they're doing this.
bookriot.com/55-books-ban...