Posted on June 18, 2025 at 8:35 AM by Sadye Scott-Hainchek
Catch up quick with the politics-adjacent bookish news of the past few days.
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Nearly 60 percent of voters in Huntington Beach, California, voted to repeal a measure that established a library review board; the board's function was to tell librarian which books should be moved to a restricted section (CBS News).
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The US Government Accountability Office concluded that the Trump administration's financial gutting of the Institute for Museum and Library services has violated the 1974 Impound Control Act — putting it at risk of yet another lawsuit over the withholding of these funds, this one from the US comptroller general (Book Riot).
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A right-wing group's 2025 See You at the Library event now claims to be "in partnership with the Department of Education at the Library of Congress," though Kelly Jensen notes that there are currently no publicly scheduled events at the Library of Congress on that day or anywhere in Washington, DC (Book Riot).
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Ira Wells unpacks how Pensacola, Florida, became the book banning capital of America (Literary Hub).
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