Alice Edda

Job perk of being a librarian: loaning a kid a book that has a great twist in it, and waiting and waiting for them to reach it, and then one day they come in and you see in their eyes that they HAVE and then you both gush and giggle and do excited hand gestures for ages 🙂

"We are in a reading crisis and #schoollibrarians are the specialists. When you're in a crisis, you call in the specialists." Yesterday, SLA CEO, Victoria Dilly gave evidence to the Education Committee on the decline in children #RfP: bit.ly/4uK77OG #SchoolLibraries

A huge thank you to @jhalakprize for this incredibly generous donation of secondary school library books, students were so impressed they appointed their favourite library mascot to guard our new collection!

“If we want our children to love reading, we have to let them choose for themselves” @JenniferKillick in this great piece in @thetimes on the popularity of #horror among young readers, featuring @DanSmithAuthor's terrifying #TheNightHouseFiles: bit.ly/4tYbLsa

@tiafisher_ Wow this is amazing!! Wish I lived close enough to see it, but congratulations 🎉

tia_fisher_writes 2m Crossing the Line, the play ... coming to a theatre near you now (if you live in East Anglia anyway! 😆). Seriously, I'm very proud of this. folkfeatures.co.uk/tias-award-win…

@jhalakprize This is brilliant news!

We announce our 10th longlists (phew!) next week Tuesday, 17th March at 9 AM. As ever, watch for brilliant book #giveaways. AND school and community #librarians: our #JhalakMagicBox is BACK! Packed full of brilliant free books. If you'd like to join our list, drop us a DM!

On #worldartday it seems a good time to share the picture books that I talked about on my last Lit Link Up webinar 😊 All are fab, if you want to see what I said about them the recording is here: bevhumphrey.com/lit-link-up.ht… #goallin

@LibWithAttitude @lucasjmaxwell Such a wonderful treat to see you Bev! ❤️❤️❤️

Lovely evening spent @lucasjmaxwell #amilliontinymissilesallatonce book launch , looking forward to reading it tomorrow 😊 @ADayInTheLib

Thank you @bcb567. @guardian @BBCRadio4: Cover this please. Don't the censorship of school libraries be a silent, insidious creep. If parents, teachers, librarians and school governors are not aware of the issue, they can't challenge it. barbara567band.blogspot.com/2026/03/beyond…

@MonkEmma @jayneair79 @simfin Follow up report here: indexoncensorship.org/2026/03/greate…

@jayneair79 @simfin I’m struggling to see what more there is - this seems like a pretty comprehensive report on what happened, and corroborated by professional bodies 🤷🏼‍♀️ indexoncensorship.org/2026/03/school…

I'm hoping this turns out to be a misrepresentation of 'facts' (@MonkEmma Do you know more on this?) School librarian 'sick with stress' after 1984 and Twilight banned from library | News UK | Metro News share.google/DtoekBbZHSMKDR…

Last week, we published a shocking story about nearly 200 books being removed from a school library in Greater Manchester. Now, the school in question has been named. The question remains: who is accountable? Read our follow-up ⬇️ indexoncensorship.org/2026/03/greate…

A shout out to the unpaid volunteers of the CILIP School Libraries Group, who have supported this librarian through her appalling ordeal and continue to advocate for intellectual freedom in school libraries. indexoncensorship.org/2026/03/greate…

@LouisMMCoiffait Huge congratulations Louis, welcome to the new reader! Hope you’re all doing well ❤️

Everything, squared. Welcome little Margot

I recently found out, thanks to @IndexCensorship , that my book, Queerly Autistic, was caught up in a mass book ban in a Greater Manchester school. I’m furious that the school librarian, who is autistic, was harassed by the school for providing my book to autistic young people.

School librarians are not in the business of harming children. Almost four years on from my own experience with this issue it is infuriating that UK librarians are having to defend the rights of young people to read freely. Our profession is vulnerable & so are our readers.

A shocking new investigation by Index reveals that Emily (not her real name), a school librarian in Greater Manchester, faced disciplinary action after stocking the book Men Who Hate Women. Nearly 200 books were targeted. 1/4

CILIP & CILIP School Libraries Group continue supporting this school librarian member through this unprecedented and worrying situation indexoncensorship.org/2026/03/school…

Not quite sure what to say about this - @educationscot (responsible for designing & improving the curriculum) are basically saying we don't need authors or illustrators to write stories. Use AI to do it! What an example to give to children.

@theLucyStrange Congratulations, utterly thrilled for you! 🎉 So deserved!

Um, so a little bit of news . . . 😱

Fantastic to see £12.5m from HMG to NLT & schools for library spaces, James Bowen of NAHT & Caroline Roche of CILIP School Libraries Group are right though, to have a larger & lasting impact it must also come with investment in staff tes.com/magazine/news/…

Debate 3pm Thurs 5 March on World Book Day led by Helen Hayes. Lets make school libraries & professional librarians statutory commonslibrary.parliament.uk/research-brief… Commons research briefing (by professional librarians), shouldn't our kids get the same support as politicians? #GoAllIn #WBD