ALT Promotional graphic with an illustrated background of light pink and brown bookshelves. At the center is an illustration of a web browser titled hashtag “Banned Books Week.” The body of the text inside the browser contains a quote from a librarian that says, “Book banning is not just trying to have a book removed from a library shelf, but a concerted effort to dismantle and destroy public education. Fighting that fight is exhausting but when a child’s freedom to read is at stake, that fight is worth it.”

ALT Promotional graphic with an illustrated background of light pink and brown bookshelves. At the center is an illustration of a web browser titled hashtag “Banned Books Week.” The body of the text inside the browser contains a quote from a librarian that says, “There is a terrible toll on a person’s emotional well being when you are repeatedly and publicly insulted and degraded. Month after month, meeting after meeting to be called a groomer and a sick pervert hurts in a way that defies words. Especially when those horrible words are directed at dedicated, professional and caring librarians.”

ALT Promotional graphic with an illustrated background of light pink and brown bookshelves. At the center is an illustration of a web browser titled hashtag “Banned Books Week.” The body of the text inside the browser contains a quote from a librarian that says, “Students lost instructional library time while staff had to spend time dealing with the paperwork of the crushing number of challenges. Students had to hear their librarians and teachers being insulted and degraded at public school board meetings. Students had to cope with distracted, overworked, despondent librarians/teachers who despite all their best intentions could not always give the students their best.”