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New in the Cedar Rapids Gazette on proposed legislation in Iowa: "[ALA President Sam Helmick] warned the proposed legislation would turn libraries into 'sites of surveillance' and would threaten their financial stability." More: www.thegazette.com/state-govern...

Over 26,000 have emailed their local trust to keep Palantir out of the NHS. Will you join them? https://notopalantir.goodlawproject.org/email-to-target/stop-palantir-in-the-nhs/?utm_source=twitter&utm_campaign=PalantirNHS&utm_medium=social_media

Congratulations to the winners of The Week Junior Book Awards, just announced! Is your favourite included? #KidLitUK #booksky 🎉 📚 🎉 booksforkeeps.co.uk/winners-of-t...

Crime writer and author of the Campbell and Carter mysteries Ann Granger has died at the age of 86.

HEY! I'm trying to raise money to send as many books as I can to a new Mobile Library being set up to support homeless people. It's being organised by Cee, founder of London based charity "PINT Giving". I'm donating £100, but if you can help too, i'd be really grateful. tinyurl.com/37yn63zu

New rule. A parent may only propose removing a book from the school library only after reading it in its entirety and delivering a book report to the librarian. Until then no discussion shall be entered into.

Following the sad news that #AidanChambers has died, @celiarees.bsky.social and I share our admiration and respect for this influential writer's writer: "a quiet trailblazer". reviewsbywriters.blogspot.com/2025/05/spec... #youthfiction @booksforkeeps.bsky.social #CarnegieMedal #writerswriter

Per @washingtonpost.com: 'President Donald Trump on Thursday fired Carla Hayden, the Librarian of Congress — the first woman and first African American to hold the position. She was informed of the decision in a terse, two-sentence email'. #DrCarlaHayden #LibraryofCongress.

The late writer and poet Benjamin Zephaniah will receive the first ever City of Birmingham Medal. He was honoured with a Blue Plaque last year at the Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery

Congratulations to Percival Everett on winning the Pulitzer for his novel JAMES. I really enjoyed reading it when it came out in paperback.

‘Meta has stolen books’: authors to protest in London against AI trained using ‘shadow library’

Fully deserved! Benjamin Zephaniah - a celebrated dub poet, musician, nature lover, actor, and activist - he was a voice of creativity and freedom! 💚 #Birmingham #Legend

Swam to the Sun . Still a tadge chilly but soon warm up .

Starting to think whether I have the carpentry skills to build an ark . The heavy downpours seem never ending. #ark #rain

A personal reflection on the transcendence of storytelling in childhood | Dr Pam Jarvis

My cartoon for this week’s Guardian Books.