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Kerman Cosplay Quest 2025

September 22, 2025 Fresno FOL Leave a comment

The Kerman Friends of the Library are proud to present Kerman Cosplay Quest 2025, a free, fun, family-friendly event dedicated…

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It’s National Friends of Libraries Week!

October 18, 2024 Fresno FOL Leave a comment

October 20-26, 2024 is National Friends of Libraries Week! Every year, United For Libraries celebrates the work of Friends groups…

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Summer 50% Off Sale

May 31, 2024 Fresno FOL Leave a comment

We’re having a sale! Everything at the Bookshop will be 50% off for the entire month of June! We have…

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Bylaw Revision Listening Session

March 29, 2024 Fresno FOL Leave a comment

We’re revising our bylaws and we’d like your participation! Our last bylaw revision was in 2014 and there are some…

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Murder Mystery at the Sanger Library

January 17, 2024 Fresno FOL Leave a comment

Join the Friends of the Sanger Branch Library and The Blossom Trail Players for their second annual Murder Mystery in…

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“Leo Politi: Artist of the Angels” Premiere

January 9, 2024 Fresno FOL Leave a comment

The Leo Politi Library is turning 50 and the Friends of the Politi Library have quite a celebration planned! Kicking…

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Epic Aerial and Pop-Up Book Sale in Sanger

July 6, 2023 Fresno FOL Leave a comment

Join the Sanger Friends of the Library for an exciting night of books, and entertainment! Epic Aerial will be performing…

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2023 Annual Meeting

February 2, 2023 Fresno FOL Leave a comment

It’s time for the Friends of the Fresno County Public Library Annual Meeting! Our guest speaker this year is Fresno…

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Murder Mystery at the Sanger Library

December 23, 2022 Fresno FOL Leave a comment

The Sanger Friends of the Library invite you to come play a game of real-life Clue with them and the…

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Giving Tuesday 2022

November 22, 2022 Fresno FOL Leave a comment

GivingTuesday is upon us! Started in 2012, GivingTuesday is a global movement dedicated to inspiring people to give back to…

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While the issues of banned or challenged books is While the issues of banned or challenged books is often framed as a school issue, according to research by the @americanlibraryassociation , 55% of challenges in 2024 occurred at public libraries! This is an issue of access not just for kids, but for all readers! 2,452 unique titles were challenged last year, with the most frequently challenged being George M. Johnson's "All Boys Aren't Blue: A Memoir-Manifesto."

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Another one of our Friends, Lyndsay McCollum (of t Another one of our Friends, Lyndsay McCollum (of the Woodward Park branch chapter), told us about her favorite banned book! 

"'Maus' is a powerful graphic novel by Art Spiegelman that recounts the story of his father's survival in Auschwitz during the Holocaust. Multilayered, historical, and deeply personal, this Pulitzer Prize-winning series should be on every to-read list."

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You probably know her primarily as the Tower Distr You probably know her primarily as the Tower District Library Advocate, but Friends of the Fresno County Public Library board member Brooke Payton also has quite the collection of books on banned books! 

It was through reading A.L. Haight's "Banned Books" that she learned about Pope Joan, who succeeded Leo IV as "John VIII," as mentioned in Hartmann Schedel's "Nuremberg Chronicle" (1493). This book wasn't officially banned, but references to the female pope were often censored or removed. To this day, there remains argument about whether she ever existed or not!

Reading banned, challenged, and frequently-censored books opens us up to all kinds of possibilities!

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Who actually challenges books in the United States Who actually challenges books in the United States? According to research by @americanlibraryassociation, 72% of censorship attempts were initiated by pressure groups and decision makers who have been swayed by them. Parents accounted for 16% of challenges and other patrons accounted for only 4%!

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