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4 years

All February I am honoring pioneering Black librarians. Today I highlight the genius of Philadelphia librarian Marion Stokes (1929-2012), who singlehandedly recorded 35 years of uninterrupted news, virtually creating one of the earliest 24hr news channels. #BlackLibrariansMatter

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Because of her devotion to libraries and literacy, @ALALibrary is delighted to honor Dolly Parton with lifetime honorary membership for her longstanding commitment to inspiring the love of reading. Find her new READ® Poster and more information at

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Spent my final day in Mexico City in the gorgeous Biblioteca Vasconcelas with its dreamy hanging bookshelves. Though one of the most stunning buildings in a stunning city, I needed no money, no particular status or citizenship to walk in, sit down, and read anything I wanted.

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All month I am honoring Black Librarians who have had a singular impact, such as renowned children’s librarian, Spencer Shaw (1917-2006). It is critical to lift up Dr. Shaw’s career because 15 years after his death, Black male librarians make up less than 1% of the profession.

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The distressing and detrimental initiative to convert Houston School District libraries into detention centers remains on my heart. A colleague shared this chilling photo after books were removed from the Thurgood Marshall Elementary School library Monday. We can’t be silent!

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One of the earliest sit-ins of the civil rights era didn’t take place at a lunch counter, but at a public library in Alexandria, VA in 1939. Like many of the period, the library was segregated, leaving Black residents w/o access to library services despite the taxes they paid.

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John Lewis was a friend to libraries and of @ALALibrary and always ready to speak or teach. His late wife Lillian had been a librarian at Atlanta U. when they met. Lewis started down the road to "good trouble"making trying to desegregate his public library in the south as a teen

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All month I am honoring Black librarians whose contributions should make us lament the dearth of Black people LIS (5% in 2019). Today I honor Miriam Matthews (1905-2003) intellectual freedom activist and @LAPublicLibrary ’s first Black librarian. #BlackLibrariansMatter

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Thank you @Forbes . This honor truly belongs to library ⁦workers + advocates everywhere. “I feel like history…is going to judge us. And I think that if we keep going in the way that we are, I think we as librarians will be on the right side of history.”

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3 years

If you want to know where the quiet revolutions are happening, they’re happening in libraries.

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So much amazing news today. But the vote to keep the #Llano , Texas Library open is simply the greatest. Stand up for libraries today and every day because “Free People Read Freely!” @UABookBans @ALALibrary

Texas County Keeps Public Libraries Open Amid Book Ban Controversy (Published 2023)

Officials in Llano County considered closing the entire library system in lieu of returning challenged titles to its shelves.

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What do we say to our children and our children’s children if we are silent on this? How can we claim to want to interrupt the school-to-prison pipeline and not see its rubrics here? “HISD to eliminate librarians, turn libraries into discipline centers”

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3 years

I cannot imagine what our nation would be without free access to libraries and thankfully I don’t have to. Celebrating libraries and celebrating the freedom to read this and every week! #NationalLibraryWeek #AmericanLibraryAssociation

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My dad just told me that I was “meant to be a librarian” because my great-grandmother Lena ran a one room school house for colored children in east Texas. I can’t describe the fire this has stoked in me. Let my work honor my great-grandmother’s dreams.

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Any public library, any school library, any college library on any campus contains enough information that if converted to knowledge can transform anyone’s life. Access to that transformation, for everyone, is what we must uphold as LIS practitioners and as members of @ALALibrary

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Just opened a letter from a middle schooler named Sadie. It read: “Book banning is bad. We could be living in a world where people are allowed to read what they want and filter books for themselves.” Listen to Sadie! #FreePeopleReadFreely

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2 years

In today’s Black History news, a young woman came up to me at a meeting and said I’d inspired her to go library school because when I spoke at her campus some years ago, I was the first Black librarian she’d ever met. We hugged on instinct. But it made me sad. The first???

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4 years

Today I pause my monthlong reflection on trailblazing Black librarians to speak out against the recent attacks on Asian Americans in the Bay Area and nationwide. Asking all in LIS to stand in solidarity with our Asian American and Pacific Islander colleagues and communities.

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4 years

Marion Stokes (1929-2012) librarian/archivist, civil rights activist, public television producer, Stokes was a true digital visionary. She also invested in (purchasing at $7 a share) and collected Apple products amassing one of the most coveted collections of its computers.

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3 years

It strikes me that the people who ask why we need funding for libraries are the same ones asking why we need funding for affordable housing or equitable public education. The inability to see the criticality of and connections between these systems speaks to tremendous privilege.

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4 years

I just can’t with the cuteness!! @ALALibrary has just released its Baby Yoda poster. Just heard this morning that the first run is close to selling out. I’m sticking bookmarks in every gift I send. READ Poster: Bookmarks:

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It’s obvious that the faction behind the rise in book banning are not real readers, because they clearly don’t know how literature works. I had probably read “Heidi” a dozen times before I turned ten and I still haven’t been to the Swiss Alps and don’t own a single goat.

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So excited to have the legendary Judy Blume open @ALALibrary ’s Annual Conference in June () As a co-honoree at the @Time 100 awards, I longed to meet her but was shy. It was incredible to have her come embrace me after my toast to librarians and libraries

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4 years

Yesterday @ALALibrary Council voted unanimously to affirm Broadband Access as a human right. This action recognizes the connection between income and digital disparity the pandemic has underscored. Information redlining is among the key civil rights issue of our time and must end

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3 years

Academic libraries should be the relationship hub of the university. Colleges that underleverage the library’s potential to serve as “switching station” driving connections between students, faculty, and departments miss out on their capacity to heighten educational success

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I wasn’t the only librarian in the house at the @TIME 100 celebration. It was wonderful to meet Charlotte of Cambridge University Libraries and to know we are together in this fight for the freedom to read across the world.

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1 year

Just a couple of librarians out on the town! Last night, I attended the #time100gala New York as my husband’s +1. An absolute highlight was meeting @TracieDHall1 who was being recognised for her work as the leader of the American Library Association 1/5

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Proud to be in a state taking a decisive stand for intellectual freedom. Calling out the incredible leadership of IL Secretary of State and State Librarian Alexi ⁦ @Giannoulias ⁩ and the IL Senate. Let’s Unite Against Book Bans! ⁦ @UABookBans ⁩

Landmark anti-book banning bill passes Illinois Senate

The bill now heads to Governor JB Prtizker’s desk.

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This will be one of those ALA Annual Conferences for the history books! @ALALibrary is pleased to announce that the *one and only* Judy Blume, legendary author and intellectual freedom advocate will keynote our Opening Session! Don’t miss it! Register @

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How exasperating to see the library in a school named for the legendary civil rights lawyer and first Black Supreme Court justice Thurgood Marshall stripped of books and made a disciplinary center in a school in which 97% of students are identified as economically disadvantaged.

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Reading is revolutionary! Celebrating the first day of #NationalLibraryCardSignUpMonth by reading in one of my favorite places, the library at the American Library Association ( @ALALibrary ). This is #HowILibrary

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2 years

Celebrating these last days of National Library Card Sign Up Month by reading in one of my favorite places, the library at @ALALibrary . Get lit, #GetLibraryCarded !

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Shout out to ⁦ @Trevornoah ⁩ and @TheDailyShow ⁩ for inviting ⁦⁦ @ALALibrary ’s ⁦ @OIF ⁩ Director Deborah Caldwell Stone and ⁦ @BannedBooksWeek ⁩ Honorary Chair George M. Johnson to speak about why we must ⁦⁦ #UniteAgainstBookBans

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Now as much as ever, may we as members strive to realize the final words of the @ALALibrary Association’s mission: “…To enhance learning and ensure access to information for all.” For all. For all. For all.

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2 years

At the end of an interview yesterday I was asked “what made you become a librarian?” The root answer is: my grandmother, Bessie Guilliard Scott who deprived of equitable library access in the rural south, took me to our library in Los Angeles every week. She is the reason!

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3 years

If it feels like censorship challenges to limit the right to read have increased exponentially, you’re right. We are in a period that is normalizing efforts to limit access to books and ideas, especially those centering BIPOC + LGBTQIA voices. Join @ALALibrary in fighting back!

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It is not lost on me that the states moving to ban or censor books in libraries today, were the very ones that had the harshest prohibitions against Black people learning to read and write during and after slavery in this country.

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This right here! We can’t have strong learning outcomes with weak library funding.

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2 years

That freedom, to read widely and engage the full range of ideas, is also precisely why in times of power hoarding, libraries are embattled. Because they are places where being free is encouraged. That is why we must fight for libraries, to ensure freedom to a next generation.

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4 years

All month I am honoring door-opening Black librarians like Bertha Pleasant Williams (1923–2008) who in 1948 became Montgomery (AL) Public Library’s first Black librarian and whose civil rights activism centered on equitable library access. #BlackLibrariansMatter

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3 years

“The school librarian is really the heart of the school...literacy, assessment, they amplify and connect so much of the work. We have to expand the mental model of what school librarians do.” Principals and Superintendents panel at @aasl ’s Friday general session.

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4 years

All readers may not be revolutionaries, but most revolutionaries are readers. @ALALibrary celebrates the life and legacy of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. #readtolead

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1 year

From the books to the buildings, there is a fringe but dangerous faction out there that is bent on taking the right to safely use libraries away from us. We can’t let that happen!

Libraries in Chicago, suburbs receive bomb threats

Libraries in Chicago, Aurora, Addison and Evanston were targeted. The incidents were investigated and deemed unfounded. “It’s a little horrifying,” said a student studying at Harold Washington...

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2 years

A special day made more so by spending it in Dr. W.E.B. Dubois’s personal library at his former home and now museum in Accra, Ghana. 12-25-22.

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1 year

So incredibly moving to see libraries and the committed library staff that run them deservedly honored today at the @WhiteHouse today!

ALA Public Policy & Advocacy

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1 year

Congratulations to all the winners of this year's @US_IMLS National Medal for Museum & Library Services, & especially to the library honorees: @BethelAKLibrary , @LACountyLibrary , @LBPublicLibrary , & @ToledoLibrary ! We were thrilled to have you & @TracieDHall1 here in Washington!

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3 years

Another library leader has left us. Honoring Dr. Henrietta Smith’s legacy: LIS storyteller + scholar and U. of South Florida’s first Black faculty member at the time she joined its School of Library Science. Her 2008 @wearealsc Distinguished Service Award was one of many honors.

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@ALALibrary is proud to present poet @TheAmandaGorman as closing keynote at our 2023 Annual Conference and to support her freedom of expression as a writer. May we climb and conquer the hill of censorship efforts that undermine our Constitution and threaten our democracy!

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3 years

I would not be a librarian today without the phenomenal Satia Orange, former director of @ALALibrary ’s Office for Literacy and Outreach Services and former Director of the lauded TransAfrica’s library. Satia is one of the most influential Black librarians of her generation.

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This timely joint letter reminds us of the inextricable link between intellectual freedom, libraries and our democracy. Each, in that order, strengthens the other.

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Thirteen presidential libraries released a joint statement on September 7 over concerns for U.S. democracy amid deep national polarization. It’s the first time the libraries have joined to make such a public declaration.

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Marion Stokes’ incredible digital archives were bequeathed to and processed by @internetarchive A biographical documentary of her life, “Recorder:The Marion Stokes Project” premiered in 2019. Except here: Marion Stokes, proof that #BlackLibrariansMatter

Reclusive activist Marion Stokes videotaped TV 24/7 for decades in the name of truth.

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Libraries belong to the people! Libraries belong to the people! Libraries belong to the people!

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#UniteAgainstBookBans is grateful to those who spoke up for the freedom to read today in Llano County. This the power of organizing as a community.

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@tadawes @OscarRLanza @ALALibrary Listen, ANYONE who thinks that following the @ALALibrary mission of “ensure access to information for all” doesn’t unequivocally mean fighting racism, is roundly mistaken.

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4 years

This month I am honoring pathbreaking Black Librarians like Charlemae Hill Rollins (1897 –1979) whose insistence on diversity and specifically, fully dimensional representation of Black people and life in Children’s literature, sets a standard for us all. #BlackLibrariansMatter

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11 months

Glad to see courts standing up against baseless censorship efforts. The majority of book bans are categorically unfounded. We must let young people and their families, not politicians and politically motivated factions, determine what they read.

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Judge dismisses lawsuit against Michigan school district, ruling that the books in question do not qualify as being harmful to minors because, as a whole, they have literary value. #UniteAgainstBookBans

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School librarians for the win! No school is complete without one! ————— North Carolina School Librarian Raises $100,000 To Feed Students During Winter Break North Carolina School Librarian Raises $100,000 To Feed Students During Winter Break

North Carolina School Librarian Raises $100,000 To Feed Students During Winter Break

Turquoise LeJeune Parker, a library teacher in Durham, North Carolina, raised $106,000 and fed all 5,000 students at 12 different schools in the district.

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1 year

Looking forward to testifying on the interconnections between the freedom to read and the freedom of religion this Wednesday on Capitol Hill.

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Book bans are a religious freedom issue. Tune in 10/18 for our briefing from Capitol Hill, where we'll be joined by honorary host @RepRaskin , to discuss how people of diverse faiths are fighting to protect our public schools & libraries. Register here:

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Back to my beginnings! Quick stop in LA to check on family and had to pop in to visit my very first library: the Watts branch of the @LAPublicLibrary headed by @BiblioSzabo . Our family home is down the street. This library made me a librarian!

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So honored to have received the 2021 “Speaking Truth to Power” Award from @BC_ALA . This is a highlight of my professional journey and encouragement for the miles to go! I dedicate this award to the Black librarians on whose shoulders we stand. May our work honor your sacrifices

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This is our leadership. This is our work. I am so grateful. Join the Executive Board & members of @ALALibrary in celebrating the first ever #RightToReadDay (4/24) a day of action to protect + celebrate the right to read during #NationalLibraryWeek …

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The day after her birthday seems a fitting time to continue my focus on Black librarians by reflecting on the life and work of artist/theorist/librarian Audre Lorde (1934-92) who saw librarianship as an opportunity to extend her activism. #BlackLibrariansMatter

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The charges against these young men wouldn’t be dismissed until 2019, eighty years later. And the library wouldn’t be fully desegregated until 1959, a full twenty years after that sit in. Last Sunday I visited the library which I have frequently written about for the first time.

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Delighted to be invited by Nikole Hannah-Jones to speak to the dark underpinnings of the current censorship campaign at the 2023 Democracy Summit hosted by Howard University’s Center for Journalism & Democracy today. The all-day summit will stream at

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2 years

On Friday @ALALibrary was honored at the closing bell of @Nasdaq stock exchange for its work and that of libraries everywhere in support of local economies. Beautiful to see libraries shine over Times Square in recognition that investing in people is the most lasting investment.

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The staff member who greeted us as we entered was a young Black woman. I couldn’t help but think of the sacrifices that made it possible for *both* of us to be there.

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My grandmother Bessie introduced me to libraries and would have definitely been a card carrying member! Thank you #GrandparentsForTruth ! ——— ‘Grandparents For Truth’ Mobilizes Against Book Banning and Censorship via @alalibrary

‘Grandparents For Truth’ Mobilizes Against Book Banning and Censorship

People for the American Way has launched 'Grandparents For Truth' to fight back against attacks on education.

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This 20 yr-old photo fell out of a book I pulled off the shelf earlier. Former @ALALibrary staffer Satia Orange and I a couple years after she’d visited the library where I worked and convinced me to apply for the brand new Spectrum fellowship. That encounter changed my life.

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The summer of 1939, five Black men: William Evans, Edward Gaddis, Morris Murray, Clarence Strange and Otto Tucker — were each charged with disorderly conduct after asking to register for library cards and sitting down to read books after being denied.

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11 months

It was my great pleasure to deliver a keynote call to action against censorship at the closing of the @AmerAcadPeds Conference this morning. Information access is a human right and a healthcare imperative!

Michelle Fiscus MD,FAAP 🌻💉❤️🌈

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“When we destabilize libraries, we destabilize #PublicHealth ” @TracieDHall1 If we can’t talk about menstruation with young girls in 2023– A NORMAL BIOLOGICAL EVENT— we have a big problem. #AAP2023

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The ability to keep reading and libraries free and open is the true litmus test of our democracy. That we would be at a place in this country where closing libraries over free expression would even be plausible is simply unbelievable and unacceptable.

Llano County library system to stay open for now

County commissioners voted to remove an item related to closing libraries from their agenda on Thursday.

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In my last column as Executive Director of @ALALibrary I reflect on the censorship battle and the last words my father spoke to me before he died: … #BookBans #IntellectualFreedom

Our History Is Our Protection | American Libraries Magazine

We are in a civil rights movement. Libraries must face this moment with the belief that the right to information access applies to everyone.

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Spotted this enlightened reader just as I was coming into work at @ALALibrary offices and she stopped for a photo. May we all do our part to protect the right to read!

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Can’t wait to hand out children’s books and library card applications tonight now that I have my @LibnOfCongress costume ready. I’ve added a string of pearls and can’t nobody tell me nothing! 😉

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Let’s honor Dr. King today and all year by following his example of reading often, critically, and in a way that inspires us to advocacy, empathy, and action! #ReadToLead ; #AmericanLibraryAssociation ; #FreePeopleReadFreely

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Excited to kick off ⁦ @BannedBooksWeek ⁩ 2022 with ⁦ @ALALibrary ⁩ . Because it was illegal for generations of my ancestors in this country to read or even to learn to read, I’m reading as many banned books as I can this week. Reading is a right!

Tracie Hall for the Banned Books Week 2016 Virtual Read Out!

Share your “Stand for the Banned” video with us! http://www.ala.org/bbooks/standforthebannedDuring the 2016 American Library Association (ALA) Annual Confere...

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@StckedLibrarian @ALALibrary If any library is experiencing an intellectual freedom challenge, library workers can and should immediately report the challenge here: oif @ala .org or via the @ALALibrary reporting form: . Hundreds of libraries receive critical support this way.

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I cannot keep it to myself. I am in awe of the collection development librarians at Baltimore’s @prattlibrary . I literally cried, the book selection was so incredible. The central library is a readers’ and researchers’ paradise! I could spend an entire vacation there. 🥰

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I am going to be hoarse screaming so loud at the @ALALibrary Youth Media Awards (YMAs). What a great year for youth literature. #LibLearnX23 ! #YouthLitRocks !

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LeVar Burton and the @ALALibrary is asking everyone, everywhere to stand up for the right to read on October 7!

Banned Books Week

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#BannedBooksWeek is here! Our Honorary Chair, the inimitable @levarburton , is ready to take action - are you? Join us in supporting library workers, educators, authors, and readers everywhere on Let Freedom Read Day, October 7! #LetFreedomRead

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So appreciating this ⁦ @nytimes ⁩ article referencing a ⁦ @yalsa ⁩ symposium panel on Library TikTok, @dallaslibrary ⁩, @KankakeeLibrary ⁩, ⁦ @WoodlandPubLib ⁩, the @IndigenousLibrarian and ⁦ @ALALibrary ⁩ Pres-Elect ⁦ @edrabinski ⁩

Librarians Are Meeting Younger Readers Where They Are: TikTok (Published 2022)

The pandemic hurt children’s reading skills. Librarians are doing what it takes to connect them with books — including dance routines.

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⁦ @ALALibrary ⁩ is grateful to authors like Nikole Hannah Jones ⁦ @nhannahjones ⁩ for bringing awareness to ⁦ @BannedBooksWeek ⁩ 2021 and to the rising attempts to censor anti racist literature here on ⁦ @CNNvideoFeed ⁩. Reading is a right!

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Day 2 of #ALAMW21 and I’m so excited to hear @DrIbram and @KeishaBlain talk about their book, “Four Hundred Souls: A Community History of African America, 1619-2019” @ALALibrary ’s Midwinter Opening Session today. Then join us for the virtual Membership Meeting! See you soon!

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4 years

All month I’ve highlighted Black librarians whose work has left legacies. Today I lift up living history maker, Dr. Carla Hayden, first Black woman to be appointed Librarian of Congress. I could say more, but hear for yourself on February 25. Register at

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Tracie D. Hall

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4 years

The groundbreaking $5B “Build America’s Libraries Act” introduced by library champion @SenJackReed to repair and build library infrastructure in highest need communities is a win for libraries, for @ALALibrary , and for the public as a whole. #LibrariesStrong = #CommunitiesStrong

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@TracieDHall1

2 years

At a time when librarians across the nation need your tangible support, please take the time to nominate a librarian who stands up for inclusion, intellectual freedom, and the joy of reading for this recognition. Thank you in advance!! 🙏🏾💕

American Library Association

@ALALibrary

2 years

Has a librarian made a difference in your life? Nominate them for the #ILoveMyLibrarian Award for a chance to receive $5,000 and the honor of a lifetime.

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Tracie D. Hall

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1 year

Thank you, @LtGovStratton . You make @ALALibrary and I proud to be headquartered in Illinois, the 1st state to penalize book banning. The assault that libraries, librarians and the association created to support them is under is relentless. But we must protect the right to read!

Lt. Governor Juliana Stratton

@LtGovStratton

1 year

I stand with our library professionals and appreciate all you do. You deserve to be safe and treated with respect as you serve the public. If you haven’t heard it lately, thank you.

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Tracie D. Hall

@TracieDHall1

1 year

The @TIME 100 gala will be televised at 6c/7e: . When asked who I most wanted to meet that night, I said the scientists. Like librarians, most scientists work not for recognition but to support others. So it was an honor to meet Deborah, Raj, and Dime

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Tracie D. Hall

@TracieDHall1

4 years

Hearing my older brother describe my obsession with library story times when I was younger — including sitting up front and acting out the stories as they were being read (😆🤣) — makes me want to thank every Children’s Librarian working hard to deliver programming online. 🙌🏾💕🙌🏾

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Tracie D. Hall

@TracieDHall1

4 years

Libraries are being left behind in Congress's pandemic response. When libraries are left behind, our communities are left behind. Preserve the future of information access. Tell Your Members of Congress to Support Library Stabilization

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@TracieDHall1

4 years

Dr. Shaw was among the first African American librarians to integrate the ranks of the Hartford Public Library. He served as Manager of the Upper Albany Branch of the Hartford Public Library from 1941-1949 where he honed his reputation for storytelling. #BlackLibrariansMatter

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Tracie D. Hall

@TracieDHall1

3 years

Still thinking about all I learned at the @aasl conference last week where I witnessed school librarians doing the work to become stronger activists, advocates, and school leaders! It’s truer now than ever that school success relies on a well staffed and well equipped library.

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Tracie D. Hall

@TracieDHall1

1 year

I was asked to speak on the impact of censorship (specifically, the attempt to suppress Black authorship and history) at the Congressional Black Caucus’s summit on Race and Democracy yesterday. The timely convening also engaged community mobilization and voting rights.

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Tracie D. Hall

@TracieDHall1

2 years

Since @ALALibrary ’s #LibLearnX23 officially starts tomorrow, I thought I would use my time between pre-conference meetings running around tasting gumbo and red beans + rice to make sure it’s safe for y’all to eat. You’re welcome 🤓

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Tracie D. Hall

@TracieDHall1

4 years

All month I am honoring Black librarians who’ve left a lasting impact. Today I honor poet, publisher, librarian Dudley Randall (1914-2000) whose career illustrates how Black librarianship also operates as a form of arts activism, cultural production, and social responsibility.

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Tracie D. Hall

@TracieDHall1

2 years

We have come to a time when the right to read is so under attack in this country that to be a librarian is to be an activist. For anyone who has ever doubted the needfulness of libraries and librarians in the 21st century, take heed!

With Rising Book Bans, Librarians Have Come Under Attack (Published 2022)

Caustic fights over which books belong on the shelves have put librarians at the center of a bitter and widening culture war.

www.nytimes.com

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Tracie D. Hall

@TracieDHall1

2 years

May this new year underscore our commitment to lower barriers to information access anywhere and everywhere they exist. (ID. Bookseller on Liberation Rd. Accra, Ghana. TDHall. 1/1/23) @ALALibrary ; @FTRF ; #LibrariesForThePeople

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Tracie D. Hall

@TracieDHall1

2 years

Thrilled to have been nominated to join the Board of the American Academy of Poets @POETSorg . Looking forward to lifting up the good word and good work!

The Academy of American Poets Elects Four New Members to Its Board of Directors

New York, NY (November 3, 2022)—The Academy of American Poets

poets.org

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Tracie D. Hall

@TracieDHall1

2 years

No matter how hard they try to erase our stories, our voices still rise! I’m grateful that @nbcchicago has made space for us to share inclusive narratives with the new @NBCChicagoToday + @ALALibrary Banned Books Club launched last month w/ @IamGMJohnson ’s All Boys Aren’t Blue.

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Tracie D. Hall

@TracieDHall1

1 year

82% of HBCUs are located in broadband deserts. Tribal Colleges often have severely limited broadband access. In time for #NationalLibraryWeek and #RightToRead Monday @ALALibrary announces grants for Minority-Serving Institution (MSI) libraries. More @

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Tracie D. Hall

@TracieDHall1

1 year

Every student at every school deserves a well equipped school library. Let’s help @aasl make that a reality. Happy School Library Month!!

American Library Association

@ALALibrary

1 year

Happy School Library Month! Schools with a strong school library program and a certified school librarian ensure students have the best chance to succeed. Take time during April to thank your school librarian and advocate on their behalf. #AASLslm

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Tracie D. Hall

@TracieDHall1

3 years

Love this so much! This is why librarians, libraries and all the people who power them are so necessary. #conavigation #cocreation (image description: Yellow words reading: “Because with a librarian at your side, you’ll never have to fly solo” in a black starlit box) @ALALibrary

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Tracie D. Hall

@TracieDHall1

1 year

A vacation day after a vibrant @ALALibrary Annual Conference is really just an opportunity to visit another library. At Taos PL this morning with leaders Nicole and Raquel when avid library users Mayor Pascualito Maestas and native seed preservationist Miguel Santistevan walk in

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