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Marcel on the Big Screen: A Conversation with Jenny Slate and Dean Fleischer Camp

June 21, 2022 / By Phil Morehart

Marcel the one-inch-tall shell became an internet sensation in a 2010 stop-motion animated short by director Dean Fleischer Camp and writer/actress Jenny Slate. Sequels and picture books followed, and now Marcel (voiced by Slate) is hitting the big screen—and an American Library Association (ALA) READ poster—in Marcel the Shell with Shoes On, a delightful film […]

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Book Censorship Update

May 6, 2022 / By Phil Morehart

Book challenges and bans are increasing in libraries and schools throughout the United States. To help spread the word about these activities and efforts to combat them by librarians, parents, students, politicians, and concerned citizens, I Love Libraries will highlight several stories each week on the current crisis. This roundup includes reports from New York,

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Fanning the Flames of Hate

April 29, 2022 / By Phil Morehart

“Those who burn books will in the end burn people.” Edna Friedberg, a historian at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington, D.C., opened the April 6 online discussion, “Fires of Hate: How the Nazis Targeted Books and Free Thinking,” with an ominous quote from Heinrich Heine. Heine wrote the line in 1821 for

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Bookmobiles on Parade

April 6, 2022 / By Phil Morehart

It’s National Library Outreach Day, when we celebrate library outreach and dedicated library professionals who are meeting their patrons where they are. Whether it’s a bookmobile stop at the local elementary school, services provided to community homes, or library pop-ups at community gatherings, these services are essential to the community. This National Library Outreach Day,

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Celebrate National Library Week with Us

April 3, 2022 / By Phil Morehart

April 3-9 is National Library Week—a time for library lovers across the country to celebrate literacy, intellectual freedom, and equitable access to information. As the COVID-19 pandemic moves into its third year, libraries are proving to be more essential than ever, providing services and programs that have kept communities strong even while socially distancing. The

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Show the World Your Love for LeVar

March 28, 2022 / By Phil Morehart

LeVar Burton is a national treasure. The actor, director, and author has engaged and entertained audiences for decades in movies like The Hunter and Ali and on television in Roots and Star Trek: The Next Generation. And as the longtime host and executive producer of PBS’s Reading Rainbow, he taught a generation of kids the

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Book covers from the Ukraine Reading List

Reading Ukraine

March 18, 2022 / By Phil Morehart

This is a guest post by Donna Seaman, adult books editor at Booklist. As we watch Russia’s massive war crimes against the people of Ukraine with horror and helplessness, many questions continue to arise. Reading in a quest for understanding is one way to cope with the terror, outrage, and sorrow. These titles have been

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The Top 10 LGBTQIA+ Books of the Year

February 17, 2022 / By Phil Morehart

The American Library Association’s Rainbow Round Table has announced its latest Over the Rainbow Book List. Compiled from a selection of 332 books across all genres released in 2021, the 10 books on the list showcase a wide range of queer stories and experiences. The Over the Rainbow Book List Committee, which compiles the list

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Want to Choose Your Next Great Read Like a Librarian?

September 9, 2021 / By I Love Libraries Staff

For more than a century Booklist has published thousands of reviews each year to help library and education workers decide what to buy for their shelves and what to recommend to patrons and students. Now you can access the same great reviews that librarians read in the Booklist Reader, a new digital library patron-facing magazine

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Two black children enjoying reading together on a couch

Fresh Librarian-approved Kids’ Reads for Summer 2021

August 2, 2021 / By Lindsey Simon

Looking for great summer reads for the young readers (and pre-readers) in your life? This list of librarian-recommended books for babies through fifth graders is a great place to start. Compiled annually by the Association for Library Service to Children, a division of the American Library Association, this list is meant for parents and caregivers

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