Daviess County Public Library

Bookshelves have become battlefields in recent years. Challenges to materials and calls for book bans have climbed to levels previously unheard of across the country as culture wars stoked by political differences have brought the fight into both school and public libraries.

Five western Kentucky library employees were awarded the Library Science Tuition Scholarship for the spring semester by the Kentucky Department for Libraries and Archives (KDLA) in January.