The St. Francis Area Schools Board of Education must end its mandate that the library use BookLooks.org, an anonymous website designed to target books with diverse viewpoints. Parents, students, and teachers deserve to have materials on the shelves that have been transparently vetted and reviewed by credible resources and publications, not shady websites with thinly-veiled political goals. Library collection policies should require that professional librarians use credible review sources to build strong collections materials that support the learning and growth of all students. BookLooks, by contrast, requires no credentials, is not transparent in naming reviewers, and has no editorial standards. Its anonymous members regularly rate important and valuable literary works as controversial or objectionable based on their discriminatory viewpoint. Sign the petition and tell the St. Francis Area Schools Board of Education to stop mandating the use of BookLooks in their libraries!

The Warren County Library Commission must end its promotion of BookLooks.org, an anonymous website designed to target books with diverse viewpoints, and any sites like it. Parents deserve credible resources from trained professionals, not unvetted sources. Endorsing BookLooks and similar websites compromises our library's integrity and parents' right to reliable information about books for their children. Our libraries already provide credible reviews through databases like NoveList and resources like Kirkus Reviews. Sites like BookLooks require no professional credentials, have no named reviewers, and follow no editorial standard. Its anonymous members routinely flag important literary works, especially those covering topics of sexuality, race, religion, or history, as controversial or objectionable. At multiple public meetings, dozens of community members objected to BookLooks and similar sites, but the Library Commission ignored concerned taxpayers and pushed forward despite overwhelming opposition. Sign this petition if you believe Warren County Public Libraries should remove BookLooks.org from its list of endorsed resources for patrons and recommend only vetted, transparent book review websites.

On Thursday, February 27th, despite full support of the greater community and everyone of the 600+ in the room, the Grossmont Union High School District (GUHSD) School Board was tone deaf to the pleas of our students, ignored them, talked over them, and voted to eliminate ALL Teacher Librarians. Their baseless justifications are for budgetary reasons, but see the facts for yourself at Grossmont Education Association. Impacted sites include:  Grossmont, El Cajon Valley, Mount Miguel, El Capitan, Granite Hills, Monte Vista, Santana, Valhalla, and West Hills. Teacher Librarians provide essential services to students and staff that are irreplaceable. Cutting these positions will hurt our students, the quality of their learning experiences, and the thriving communities that our properly staffed school libraries support. We urge our school board members to genuinely listen to their constituents and reverse their cuts to Teacher Librarian positions. Sign and share this petition now to protect our librarians and ensure students continue to receive the resources and support they need!

We support reading freedom in New Mexico. We oppose book bans. Everyone deserves to share their culture through books. Freedom of speech includes the freedom to read. Book bans limit reading choice by removing or hiding books. A few people shouldn't decide what everyone else can read. Book bans are often prejudiced too. Schools and libraries are for learning. Our world is both great and difficult. We can all learn so much about it through the safety of the pages of a book.

We must protect the library that we know and love. Samuels is the place we went to growing up and now take our kids. We want it to be there for our grandkids. It has a legacy in this community. This library and the staff have stood up for our first amendment rights and it is our time to stand up for them.  We have to tell these Supervisors that this is not want Warren County voters want. 

The Elizabeth School Board is implementing policies that will block access to age appropriate books in each of Elizabeth's school libraries and in classroom libraries.  They want to ban books -- even award-winning, classic American literature -- that have been in the ESD libraries for years and used as curriculum for generations.  Please sign and share this petition to stop the Elizabeth School Board from this government overreach and infringing on the rights of ESD parents and students.

The Greenville County Library Board is illegally restricting access to books written for young adults and children. They have ordered the materials moved to a shelving area called the Parenting and Early Childhood collection which is off limits to anyone under 18. They then ordered that books that deal with topics that they are uncomfortable with must be moved to this restricted section. What books has the Board determined must be restricted? Books featuring children with disabilities. Books that help younger people deal with loss. Books that deal with the topic of gender. Some of the books have been deemed inappropriate for children because a crayon has the wrong wrapper or because a fictitious creature is neither a duck nor a bunny. The message is loud and clear that these children—the ones with disabilities, who don’t conform to traditional roles— are bad and wrong. The restricted area stigmatizes many families and forces them to pick their books up from a different section because they don’t conform to the Board’s idea of what a family should look like. Please sign and share this petition If you agree that political appointees should not be illegally forcing their discriminatory viewpoints on the reading choices of Greenville parents and families.

We believe that public libraries are for everyone, and censorship is Anti-American. We also believe in and trust our professional librarians and city staff. Library operations and collection development should be left in their hands. This unfairly appointed advisory library board is sowing seeds of mistrust and hate. We want to put love over hate, respect over mistrust. 

At the August 27 Board meeting, the Board voted to reorganize officers, removing Board President Allyson Tuckness from the role of President. This move is in violation of Article II, Section I of the Board’s bylaws which govern the time and manner of the selection of Officers. The bylaws state that  “Officers of the Christian County Library Board of Trustees shall be elected for the following year at the end of each December meeting.”  Not only were the actions on August 7th in violation of the bylaws, the illegal move also irresponsibly leaves the library without proper signing authorities on the bank account.  Please sign and share this petition to let Board members know that they must run the library and manage tax dollars in a legal and responsible manner -- and must therefore immediately acknowledge that their attempt to remove President Tuckness was illegitimate, and that all board actions are null and void unless and until President Tuckness is recognized as the Board President, who is vested with the authority to preside over all Board meetings.

The board has already cut the bookmobile affecting senior centers and schools. Now they are putting forth a budget that once again fails to responsibly fund the library. If the Board fails to fully fund our library, it will lead to a number of harmful impacts including a cut in Sunday hours -- which the community strongly opposes. It will also lead to harmful cuts in programs, materials, and services, which will negatively impact children’s literacy, support for students, homeschoolers, parents, and our community’s access to technology and workforce/job support. Please sign and share this petition to let Board members know that they need to fully fund our library!

Erie County Executive Brenton Davis and some members of the County Council have wrongly entered into a lease agreement with Gannon University, a private, religious, tax-exempt institution without input or approval from taxpayers.  The lease grants Gannon the takeover of 3200 square feet as well as access to substantial portions of the only public library located within the City of Erie—the Raymond M. Blasco Memorial Library.   Members and supporters of “Keep our Library Public” (KOLP) span all ages, genders, incomes, backgrounds, and political affiliations.  We live and pay taxes in municipalities throughout Erie County.  We believe our elected officials should carry out their official duties openly, responsibly, and with reasonable input from their constituents—the residents and taxpayers of Erie County.    But over and over again, our elected officials, the Bishop of the Erie Diocese, and the Gannon University administration, have ignored the voices of library users and hardworking taxpayers. The past County Council Chairman denied our right to speak at a December 2023 public meeting, and even had people removed from that meeting.    Sign and share this petition to tell our elected leaders and Gannon to listen to taxpayers, keep our public library public, and cancel the lease immediately. 

Lenape Regional High School students deserve the best preparation for their future college and career plans. The LRHSD dismissed two tenured school librarians for the upcoming school year, leaving only three librarians for four schools. Since 2021, LRHSD has lost 70% of it's school librarians due to staffing cuts. Further reductions will impair LRHSD's 6,500 students' ability to engage in research and access support for 21st Century information literacy life skills. We need to take action NOW to send the board the message to reinstate these two full-time school librarian positions so that all Lenape Regional High School District students at every school can have the fully staffed school library with certified school librarians they need and deserve. Studies show that students who have access to a full time, certified school librarian and a strong school library program have higher academic achievement and are better prepared for college and careers. Tell the Board of Education and school administrators all Lenape Regional High School students deserve a full time certified school librarian. The board meets next on June 26, (mark your calendars!) but decisions are being finalized now! Time is of the essence! Sign the NJASL/NJLA petition and share with your neighbors, and you will be redirected to an email campaign to send an email to the school board and administrators about the importance of a fully staffed school library for all LRHSD students.