Kentucky Public Library Association

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.

The Kentucky Public Library Association membership recently elected Tammy Blackwell as its new chair during the organization’s annual conference in Owensboro this March.

Some library advocates say a bill working its way through the Kentucky legislatures poses a threat to the nonpartisan mission of libraries.