Amanda Jones is a Louisiana middle-school librarian who sleeps with a shotgun under her bed and carries a pistol when she travels the back roads. “I never expected any of this,” said Jones, who lives ...

The battle over books is just the latest iteration of a culture war. Over the past years, conservatives have challenged books in public libraries and school libraries, claiming some contain sexually ...

Amid a surge in book bans nationwide, the librarian Amanda Jones was targeted by vicious threats. So she decided to fight back. By Alexandra Alter One Sunday morning two years ago, Amanda Jones, a ...

The name Belle da Costa Greene might not ring a bell, but New York's historic Morgan Library and Museum is trying to change that. A new exhibit called "A Librarian's Legacy" opened this month, just in ...

In fall 2022, Amanda Jones, a school librarian in Livingston Parish, La., made headlines when she filed a defamation suit against two men who had targeted her with a campaign of harassment after she ...

Some Spring Branch ISD parents and staff say they are baffled by the latest round of proposed budget cuts that would slash all librarian positions from schools. Spring Branch parent Courtney Prochaska ...