National School Library Month

April is National School Library Month! Our union champions literacy, and we believe that every school in every community deserves a library. Sadly, there has been a resurgence in efforts by right-wing extremists to ban books. These attempts to censor what teachers can teach and what libraries can provide hurt students.

This month provides an opportunity not only to celebrate school libraries and librarians, but also to emphasize the importance of children having access to books, especially books that open their world to history and people who are different from them. Below is a collection of resources about libraries, literacy, and the harm that book bans are causing. To learn more about our Reading Opens the World initiative to counter book bans by giving away free books, click here.