Sign up to become a New York Library Associate (NYLA) Advocate! Follow this link to sign up and receive emails and learn about opportunities and legislation in the New York area. Since its founding in 1890, NYLA has always been devoted to the promotion of the library interests of the entire state.
Check out the American Library Association’s (ALA) website and see what kind of work the ALA is up to! The association works to increase public awareness of the value of libraries and librarians, to promote state and national legislation beneficial to libraries and library users, and to supply resources and support to local library advocates. Here you will find helpful links like how to report censorship or look up book-banning data across all states.
Join the Unite Against Book Bans campaign! With more than 200 partner organizations and tens of thousands of individual supporters, Unite Against Book Bans connects, equips, and mobilizes the public to advocate in their communities for the right to read and to defeat attempts at every level of government to censor reading material.