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Nicole A. Cooke

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Baker Endowed Chair and Professor of Library and Information Science, University of South Carolina

Librarian Sharice Towles checks in books at the main branch of the Reading Public Library circulation desk in Reading, Penn. Ben Hasty/MediaNews Group/Reading Eagle via Getty Images

July 20, 2023

How book‑banning campaigns have changed the lives and education of librarians – they now need to learn how to plan for safety and legally protect themselves

Nicole A. Cooke, University of South Carolina

Librarians are defending the rights of readers and writers in the battle raging across the US over censorship, book challenges and book bans. That conflict has even changed how librarians are trained.

A sign of the times. Geraldine Wilkins/Los Angeles Times via Getty Images

February 28, 2020

Librarians could be jailed and fined under a proposed censorship law

Nicole A. Cooke, University of South Carolina

There’s a long history of books being banned from public and school libraries.

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