News and Updates

We want to share a positive report from our Rally at the Capitol on February 4, 2026, and thank everyone who helped make this advocacy moment such a success.

Join New Mexico PBS (NMPBS) and Sanctuary Cinema, in partnership with The Public Library – Albuquerque & Bernalillo County, for a special community screening of The Librarians—a powerful documentary examining the growing movement to censor books, the people pushing back, and what’s at stake for public education, libraries, and democracy itself.

The 2026 New Mexico Library Legislative Day was a powerful reminder of what’s possible when librarians, educators, authors, and advocates show up together with a shared purpose.

For the first time in New Mexico, a set of bills has been introduced to protect your freedom to read in all types of libraries: public, school, and academic. These three bills are the result of months of teamwork among lawmakers, librarians, educators, authors, and advocates who believe that access to books isn’t just for a select few. It’s about our rights, equal opportunities for learning, and making sure our public spaces serve everyone.

As the 2026 Legislative Session opens in New Mexico, we face a journey that currently sees us standing at the base of a towering mountain. Despite a truly impressive letter-writing campaign over the last six weeks, Governor Lujan Grisham has not added our three bills to her "first tier" of special interest legislation to consider at the session. However, the Governor's office has extended an invitation for the coalition at large to prove that library censorship is a current and ongoing issue in our state. 

Authors Kit Rosewater and Laurel Goodluck travelled to the Santa Fe Indian School on January 8, 2026, to meet with students in grades 7-12 to discuss book censorship. The students all had stories and messages for their state government, and together embarked in a spontaneous postcard writing campaign to our governor's office. Transcribed below are their anonymous messages.