For four weeks, 10 people pulled children’s books from library shelves in Ozark and checked each title for explicit content. It took a month for library staff to review about 8,000 children’s and ...

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On Sunday night, more than 8,000 books and manuscripts were destroyed after ISIS militants bombed Mosul’s Central Library, The Fiscal Times reported. Ghanim al-Ta’an, the director of the library, said ...

Editor’s Note: A previous version of this story first published on June 13, 2024. After the Great Chicago Fire of 1871, Queen Victoria of Great Britain donated 8,000 books that would become the ...