{"id":2809,"date":"2026-04-24T12:13:39","date_gmt":"2026-04-24T16:13:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.cortland.edu\/library\/?p=2809"},"modified":"2026-04-24T12:13:39","modified_gmt":"2026-04-24T16:13:39","slug":"nlw-state-of-americas-libraries-a-snapshot-of-2025","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.cortland.edu\/library\/2026\/04\/24\/nlw-state-of-americas-libraries-a-snapshot-of-2025\/","title":{"rendered":"NLW: State of America&#8217;s Libraries &#8211; A Snapshot of 2025"},"content":{"rendered":"\r\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-2812\" src=\"http:\/\/sites.cortland.edu\/library\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2026\/04\/NLW2026_StateOfLibraries.jpeg\" alt=\"State of America's Libraries - A Snapshot of 2025\" width=\"1154\" height=\"1536\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sites.cortland.edu\/library\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2026\/04\/NLW2026_StateOfLibraries.jpeg 1154w, https:\/\/sites.cortland.edu\/library\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2026\/04\/NLW2026_StateOfLibraries-225x300.jpeg 225w, https:\/\/sites.cortland.edu\/library\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2026\/04\/NLW2026_StateOfLibraries-769x1024.jpeg 769w, https:\/\/sites.cortland.edu\/library\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2026\/04\/NLW2026_StateOfLibraries-768x1022.jpeg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1154px) 100vw, 1154px\" \/><\/p>\r\n<p>End this year\u2019s National Library Week by checking out the \u201cState of America&#8217;s Libraries: A Snapshot of 2025\u201d report created by the American Library Association. <br \/><br \/>\u201cAs the nation\u2019s libraries unite to celebrate National Library Week, and communities everywhere recognize the valuable contribution of America\u2019s libraries and the people who power them, library workers around the country continue to grapple with censorship challenges and threats to their livelihood. <br \/><br \/>ALA\u2019s Office for Intellectual Freedom tracked 4,235 unique titles challenged in 2025, the second highest ever documented by ALA. <br \/><br \/>Read more about censorship challenges, literacy efforts, and federal library advocacy in the State of America&#8217;s Libraries: A Snapshot of 2025.\u201d &#8211; ALA <br \/><br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ala.org\/news\/state-americas-libraries-report-2026\">https:\/\/www.ala.org\/news\/state-americas-libraries-report-2026<\/a> <br \/><br \/>Thank you for joining the Memorial Library in celebrating National Library Week! <br \/><br \/>#sunycortlandmemoriallibrary <br \/>#nationallibraryweek <\/p>\r\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>End this year\u2019s National Library Week by checking out the \u201cState of America&#8217;s Libraries: A Snapshot of 2025\u201d report created by the American Library Association. \u201cAs the nation\u2019s libraries unite to celebrate National Library Week, and communities everywhere recognize the valuable contribution of America\u2019s libraries and the people who power them, library workers around the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":127,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[112,118,99],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2809","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-library","category-memorial-library","category-national-library-week"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.cortland.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2809","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.cortland.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.cortland.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.cortland.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/127"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.cortland.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2809"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sites.cortland.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2809\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.cortland.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2809"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.cortland.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2809"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.cortland.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2809"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}