The April 1 Newsweek piece, "North Carolina Librarians Could Be Charged Over Books 'Harmful to Minors'" was featured in SLJ's Censorship News column.

About our coverage of a North Carolina bill, which would make it a misdemeanor criminal offense to offer "material that is harmful to minors" in public school classrooms and libraries, readers responded:

Parents should not be allowed to request removal of a book. They can forbid their child from reading a book but, forbidding everyone's children from access to a book is beyond overstepping, it's just wrong.
—Melissa Bollinger, on Facebook

If this is supposed to be about parental 'rights' then parents can also request that books be put back on the shelves . . it should go both ways. But this Co law also seems like a good start.
—Patty Painter Robertson, on Facebook

On “The Cost of Losing IMLS Funding”:

@slj.com asked librarians to share how the loss of IMLS funding has and will impact their library. Please take a moment to read about the real-life, real-time devastating effects of the current regime's policy decisions on public and school libraries across the country.
—Phil Bildner‬‬ on Bluesky

These days, we’ve caught multiple citings of 1984 on social media. So we re-shared our review of the George Orwell classic, part of Defending the Canon, SLJ’s co-project with NCTE. Readers took it from there:

This book was my first introduction to dystopian novels—and deep dive into “doublespeak” or political propaganda. Orwell is so skilled at creating allegorical tales (re: Animal Farm). Aldous Huxley walked so Orwell could run.
—Carla StLouis, on Facebook

As a 16 year old I had to read this at school and ‘Describe the oppressive lack of freedom in a totalitarian state’ I couldn’t even complete the task! That was in 1982! I often think back to this and for years couldn’t understand the logic! But after travelling around the block a few times and rereading it a few years ago I’d like to thank my old English teacher for giving me the ‘heads up.’
—Dee Gee, on Facebook

I just finished re-reading this. I think every grown up in America would benefit reading this in 2025
—Steph Kay, on Facebook

“Sit up straight. Love each other. Read more.”
—‪Tina, on Bluesky‬, responding to “Finding Strength in Books: Titles for Turbulent Times”‬