--- title: Amanda Jones | TIME description: Amanda Jones is a 25 year teacher-librarian and grassroots organizer in Louisiana fighting against censorship in libraries. Amanda is the 2021 Librarian of the Year (as presented by School Library Journal), is a founding member of Louisiana Citizens Against Censorship, and is the author of That Librarian: The Fight Against Book Banning in America. Amanda is a participant in the 2025 documentary, “The Librarians.” canonical: https://time.com/author/amanda-jones/ og:title: TIME | Current & Breaking News | National & World Updates og:description: Breaking news and analysis from time.com. Politics, world news, photos, video, tech reviews, health, science, and entertainment news. og:url: https://time.com/author/amanda-jones/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production og:image:width: 300 og:image:height: 300 og:image:alt: Breaking news and analysis from time.com. Politics, world news, photos, video, tech reviews, health, science, and entertainment news. og:type: profile twitter:card: summary twitter:title: TIME | Current & Breaking News | National & World Updates twitter:description: Breaking news and analysis from time.com. Politics, world news, photos, video, tech reviews, health, science, and entertainment news. twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- # Amanda Jones ## Amanda Jones Amanda Jones is a 25 year teacher-librarian and grassroots organizer in Louisiana fighting against censorship in libraries. Amanda is the 2021 Librarian of the Year (as presented by School Library Journal), is a founding member of Louisiana Citizens Against Censorship, and is the author of [_That Librarian: The Fight Against Book Banning in America_](https://www.bloomsbury.com/us/that-librarian-9781639733545/). Amanda is a participant in the 2025 documentary, “[The Librarians](https://thelibrariansfilm.com/).” ## Amanda Jones *  Dec 17, 2025 ### [The New Era of Book Bans](https://time.com/7341120/book-bans-supreme-court-first-amendment-reading/) The Supreme Court’s inaction hands governments new power to pull titles, and puts Americans’ First A... [IDEAS](/section/ideas/) *  Aug 20, 2024 ### [This Election Will Determine the Fate of Libraries](https://time.com/7011430/libraries-election-stakes-amanda-jones-essay/) "Each day, I wake up wondering where the next attack on libraries will come from," writes Amanda Jon... [IDEAS](/section/ideas/) Meta: null ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"Organization","@id":"https://time.com/","name":"TIME","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/","name":"Home"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/author/amanda-jones/","name":"Amanda Jones"}}]},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"Person","@id":"https://time.com/author/amanda-jones/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/author/amanda-jones/"},"name":"Amanda Jones","jobTitle":null,"description":"Amanda Jones is a 25 year teacher-librarian and grassroots organizer in Louisiana fighting against censorship in libraries. Amanda is the 2021 Librarian of the Year (as presented by School Library Journal), is a founding member of Louisiana Citizens Against Censorship, and is the author of That Librarian: The Fight Against Book Banning in America. Amanda is a participant in the 2025 documentary, “The Librarians.”","url":"https://time.com/author/amanda-jones/","worksFor":{"@type":"Organization","name":"TIME","url":"https://time.com/"}}] ```