Includes bibliographical references and index.

Part I: Protected by policy. 1. Give them library cards! / Carrie Valdes -- 2. The Vitruvian Man and a threat to burn down the art library / Megan Lotts -- 3. Adventures in book court / Sandra Parks -- Part II: Public events. 4. Black Lives Matter die-in: library space as an intellectual freedom issue / Raina Bloom and Carrie Kruse -- 5. Exposing a community: drag queen storytime in rural America / Jennifer Stickles -- 6. Did we just normalize extreme views and make the library an unsafe place? / Daniel Forsman -- Part III: Difficult conversations. 7. A library's response(ability) in #MeToo / Leah Shlachter -- 8. Promoting intellectual freedom through a social book group / James Allen Davis and Hadiya Evans -- Part IV: Institutional decisions. 9. The storage closet / Shana Chartier -- 10. Fox and the hedgehog: when libraries are behind bars / Erin Boyington -- 11. Widely read teens become well-rounded adults / Lisa Hoover -- 12. Y colorin colorado, este cent se ha acabado [Snip, snap, snout, this tale's told out] / Care Fenoll Clarabuch -- Part V: Patrons challenging material. 13. Transgender children's books in the public library / Tom Taylor -- 14. Restoring EBSCO: the power of coalition and rapid response / Rebekah Cummings and Peter Bromberg -- 15. "Bullshit hatred from cover to cover": Islamophobia in the age of Trump / Lorena Neal -- 16. Anywhere USA / Joan Airoldi -- Part VI: Cultural sensitivity. 17. "Just get rid of them": American Indian children's literature in the tribal college library / Rhiannon Sorrell -- 18. Censorship and sensibility / Lara Aase.