State of America's Libraries Report 2024 Promotional Tools

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Use these graphics and sample social media posts to help spread the word about the 2024 State of America's Libraries Report.
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Report cover: Libraries Take Action! State of America's Libraries 2024, a Report from the ¹Ü¼ÒÆŲÊͼ
Social media graphic: THe unprecedented wave of organized censorship intesifies, particularly in our public libraries. Adverse legislation that would undermine librarian agency and authority is getting a hearing in legislatures across the country. Climate change continues to impact libraries, damaging buildings in some areas and turning libraries into recovery centers in others. Budget cuts and staffing challenges undermine our ability to fulfillour missions. In these extraordinary times, libraries take act
Social media graphic: Between 2001 and 2020, the average number of unique book titles targeted for censorship each year was 273. THe highest recorded number of unique titles challenged during this period was 390 in one year. In that entire two-decade span, 3,637 unique titles were challenged by censors -- more than 600 fewer titles than in 2023. 3, 637 unique titles challenges 2001-2020. 4,240 unique titles challenged in 2023. State of America's Libraries Report.
Social media graphic: 151 bills introduced by state lawmakers that would authorize the criminal prosecution of librarians, threaten library funding, or that imposed unconstitutional content-based restrictions on books for children and adolescents, propelled by the falsehoods circulated by organized pressure groups claiming that access to diverse books and ideas harms young people. State of America's Libraries Report 2024
Social media graphic: Voters are beginning to reject discriminatory book ban rhetoric by electing moderate board members committed to preserving the right to read freely in school and public libraries. Accross the country, election results in states as diverse as Virginia, Illinois, Idaho, and Minnesota showed that most people oppose censorship in libraries. State of America's Libraries Report 2024
Top Ten Most Challenged Books of 2023 (partial book covers)
Social media graphic: THe State of America's Libraries 2024, a report from the ¹Ü¼ÒÆŲÊͼ.
Report cover: Libraries Take Action! State of America's Libraries 2024, a Report from the ¹Ü¼ÒÆŲÊͼ
Social media graphic: THe unprecedented wave of organized censorship intesifies, particularly in our public libraries. Adverse legislation that would undermine librarian agency and authority is getting a hearing in legislatures across the country. Climate change continues to impact libraries, damaging buildings in some areas and turning libraries into recovery centers in others. Budget cuts and staffing challenges undermine our ability to fulfillour missions. In these extraordinary times, libraries take act
Social media graphic: Between 2001 and 2020, the average number of unique book titles targeted for censorship each year was 273. THe highest recorded number of unique titles challenged during this period was 390 in one year. In that entire two-decade span, 3,637 unique titles were challenged by censors -- more than 600 fewer titles than in 2023. 3, 637 unique titles challenges 2001-2020. 4,240 unique titles challenged in 2023. State of America's Libraries Report.
Social media graphic: 151 bills introduced by state lawmakers that would authorize the criminal prosecution of librarians, threaten library funding, or that imposed unconstitutional content-based restrictions on books for children and adolescents, propelled by the falsehoods circulated by organized pressure groups claiming that access to diverse books and ideas harms young people. State of America's Libraries Report 2024
Social media graphic: Voters are beginning to reject discriminatory book ban rhetoric by electing moderate board members committed to preserving the right to read freely in school and public libraries. Accross the country, election results in states as diverse as Virginia, Illinois, Idaho, and Minnesota showed that most people oppose censorship in libraries. State of America's Libraries Report 2024
Top Ten Most Challenged Books of 2023 (partial book covers)
Social media graphic: THe State of America's Libraries 2024, a report from the ¹Ü¼ÒÆŲÊͼ.

Sample Social Media Posts

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2023 saw libraries and library workers take action for their communities amid escalated censorship attempts and adverse legislation. Learn more and see this year's #BannedBookList in the 2024 State of America’s Libraries Report. #NationalLibraryWeek

Libraries continued to provide critical services and develop innovative programs and services for their communities, despite the barrage of challenges they faced in 2023. Learn more in the State of America's Libraries Report. #NationalLibraryWeek

Libraries continued to provide critical services and develop innovative programs and services for their communities, despite the barrage of challenges they faced in 2023. Learn more in the State of America's Libraries Report. #NationalLibraryWeek

In 2023, the number of unique book titles challenged surpassed the total from the entire 20-year period of 2001-2020. Learn more in the 2024 State of America's Libraries Report. #NationalLibraryWeek