Foreword: Storytelling for Advocacy, by Janice Del Negro
Acknowledgments
Introduction: Advocating for Intellectual Freedom through Storytelling
Part I Protected by Policy
Chapter 1 Give Them Library Cards!
Carrie Valdes
Chapter 2 The Vitruvian Man and a Threat to Burn Down the Art Library
Megan Lotts
Chapter 3 Adventures in Book Court
Sandra Parks
Reflection Questions for Part I
Part II Public Events
Chapter 4 Black Lives Matter Die-In: Library Space as an Intellectual Freedom Issue
Raina Bloom and Carrie Kruse
Chapter 5 Exposing a Community: Drag Queen Storytime in Rural America
Jennifer Stickles
Chapter 6 Did We Just Normalize Extreme Views and Make the Library an Unsafe Place?
Daniel Forsman
Reflection Questions for Part II
Part III Difficult Conversations
Chapter 7 A Library’s Response(ability) in #MeToo
Leah Shlachter
Chapter 8 Promoting Intellectual Freedom through a Social Book Group
James Allen Davis and Hadiya Evans
Reflection Questions for Part III
Part IV Institutional Decisions
Chapter 9 The Storage Closet
Shana Chartier
Chapter 10 The Fox and the Hedgehog: When Libraries are behind Bars
Erin Boyington
Chapter 11 Widely Read Teens Become Well-Rounded Adults
Lisa Hoover
Chapter 12 Y Colorín Colorado, Este Cuento Se Ha Acabado [Snip, Snap, Snout, This Tale’s Told Out]
Carme Fenoll Clarabuch
Reflection Questions for Part IV
Part V Patrons Challenging Material
Chapter 13 Transgender Children’s Books in the Public Library
Tom Taylor
Chapter 14 Restoring EBSCO: The Power of Coalition and Rapid Response
Rebekah Cummings and Peter Bromberg
Chapter 15 “Bullshit Hatred from Cover to Cover”: Islamophobia in The Age of Trump
Lorena Neal
Chapter 16 Anywhere USA
Joan Airoldi
Reflection Questions for Part V
Part VI Cultural Sensitivity
Chapter 17 “Just Get Rid of Them”: American Indian Children’s Literature in the Tribal College Library
Rhiannon Sorrell
Chapter 18 Censorship and Sensibility
Lara Aase
Reflection Questions for Part VI
Conclusion: The Work Continues
About the Contributors
Index