Iowa librarians are pushing back on multiple Republican-led bills that they say would take away local control from public libraries and threaten Iowans' access to information, while supporters favor ...

From award-winners to childhood favorites, find out what Iowa City is reading with a roundup of the most checked out library ...

An event hosted in Sioux Center last week by conservative news outlet The Iowa Standard renewed local discussion surrounding ...

Audrey, Gideon, Rachel and Mary Phillips pick out library books during a visit by the Marion Library’s Bookmobile to Thomas Park on Aug. 26, 2025. The library is one of hundreds in the state to ...

The Iowa City Public Library has announced a new grant that will provide children under the age of 18, particularly elementary-aged children, with food through their Snacks Program. The grant ensures ...

ORANGE CITY, Iowa (AP) — Library officials in northwest Iowa are deciding how to respond after a religious activist burned four LGBTQ children's books. Orange City library director Amanda Vazquez told ...

DES MOINES, Iowa — Iowa cannot, for now, continue to enforce part of its book ban law, a federal judge said Tuesday, giving major publishers that sued the state the second temporary reprieve they ...

Iowa Republican lawmakers are seeking to remove an exemption in Iowa's obscenity law that protects libraries and educational institutions — a move supporters say will remove children's access to ...

I was appointed by Gov. Culver to the Board of Trustees of the State Historical Society of Iowa (SHSI) in 2009 and served until 2024 under five 3-year appointments made by 3 different governors. Once ...

The library’s simmering culture clash dates back to late 2020, a few months after Janette McMahon, a woman with decades of experience as a library administrator, took over as director from Virginia ...