• Ohio lawmakers reversed proposed cuts to public library funding, promising increased funding next year.
• The Public Library Fund will remain, but the funding amount will be determined by lawmakers, not a fixed percentage of state revenue.
• Librarians across Ohio lobbied to protect state funding for local libraries.

State lawmakers on Tuesday reversed course on proposed cuts to public library funding and promised that every library will see an increase in money next year.

The John F. Kennedy Presidential Library and Museum in Boston closed abruptly Tuesday afternoon, with staff escorting visitors out of the building after the Trump administration ordered the firing of five employees that were critical to its operation.

The library, which is run by the National Archives, at first said it would remain closed indefinitely.

Book publisher Scholastic announced a “Read with Pride” campaign, providing educators a list of “LGBTQIA+ stories” for “kids and teens” and vowed to use company resources to fight efforts by local school districts and parents to determine what content is appropriate for students.

This library has checked out.

A public library in California has shut its doors following months of rampant drug use, robberies and even public sex between the bookshelves as Golden State cities are held hostage by criminals.

The Contra Costa County Library’s Antioch Branch that it made the decision to close beginning on Saturday until further notice as the “repeated dangerous incidents” have threatened the safety of its patrons.

A coalition of Texas bookstores and national bookseller associations filed suit on Tuesday over House Bill 900, which aims to ban sexually explicit material from school libraries.

Former President Barack Obama in a Monday letter praised librarians who push LGBT-themed books on kids, without mentioning the sexually explicit content contained therein.

Obama criticized “book bans” across American school libraries, which have resulted from parents complaining of their children being exposed to sexually explicit content. The former president claimed many books which “shaped his life” are being banned in order to target LGBTQ, indigenous people and racial minorities.

For colleges and libraries seeking a boldfaced name for a guest lecturer, few come bigger than Sonia Sotomayor, the Supreme Court justice who rose from poverty in the Bronx to the nation’s highest court.

She has benefited, too — from schools’ purchases of hundreds, sometimes thousands, of the books she has written over the years.