Challenges to LGBTQ books

Demands to label, move LGBTQ children’s books flood Crook County Library amid warnings (Bend Bulletin, 12/6/2022)

Oregon Intellectual Freedom Clearinghouse report (annual) State Library of Oregon

Library book removal

Medford School District book removal amounts to ‘censorship’, says state library association (OPB, 6/5/22)

Annual report on challenges to intellectual freedom in Oregon libraries & schools (serial) State Library of Oregon

Title index to materials challenges (serial) State Library of Oregon

Challenges to library books

Banned Books Week is here: See what books were challenged in Oregon in 2019-20 (Oregonian, 9/27/2020)

Annual report on challenges to intellectual freedom in Oregon libraries & schools (annual) State Library of Oregon

Title index to materials challenges (annual) State Library of Oregon

Library book challenges

Book challenges put small library in a bind (Portland Tribune, 9/24/2019)

Annual report, Intellectual Freedom Clearinghouse (annual) State Library of Oregon

Library book challenges

Library book challenges stack up (Portland Tribune, 9/25/2018)

Annual report, Oregon Intellectual Freedom Clearinghouse (annual) State Library of Oregon

Index to challenges (annual) State Library of Oregon

Controversial books and schools

Beaverton School District bans book with sexual themes from some classrooms (Oregonian, 2/15/2018)

Annual report, Oregon Intellectual Freedom Clearinghouse (annual) Oregon State Library

Index to challenges reported between 1987 and … (annual) Oregon Intellectual Freedom Clearinghouse

Libraries and bias-crimes

Bias-crime info joins book challenge reports as libraries hang onto neutral ground (Portland Tribune, 9/26/2017)

Annual report on challenges to materials in Oregon libraries (annual) Oregon Intellectual Freedom Clearinghouse