The Alabama Senate Tuesday passed a bill that would allow county and city governments to terminate the members of local library boards. SB 26, sponsored by Sen. Chris Elliott, R-Josephine, would ...

The Alabama State Senate on Tuesday passed a bill allowing local officials to remove library board members without cause. The bill was approved with 26 ayes, four nays and one abstention after ...

The Alabama Senate County and Municipal Government Committee approved the measure with some Democratic support, after lawmakers agreed to remove a provision that would have required library boards to ...

In the last few years, Alabama lawmakers have pushed hard to raise the state’s reading scores. The Legislature approved funding for reading coaches in schools. They established summer camps for ...

The state board governing Alabama libraries plans to amend its administrative code to add language effectively prohibiting positive descriptions of “transgender procedures” or “the concept of more ...

The Alabama Public Library Service will continue withholding state funding from the Fairhope Public Library amid an ongoing dispute over how the library handles challenges to some books. Members of ...

The Alabama Public Library Service Thursday voted to restrict books for minors that address “transgender procedures, gender ideology, or the concept of more than two biological genders.” The changes — ...