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Alberta Premier Danielle Smith (right) stands with Minister of Education and Childcare, Demetrios Nicolaides, following a swearing in ceremony in May, 2025. Nicolaides announced a ministerial order declaring texts with certain subject matter must be eliminated from school libraries by October 1.

Kit Dobson is a professor in the Department of English at the University of Calgary .

Back-to-school season arrives with new uncertainties in Alberta this fall. The usual jitters of new classes, peer groups and seating plans come alongside a shroud of uncertainty hanging over school libraries.

Over the summer break, Alberta Education Minister Demetrios Nicolaides announced ministerial order 30 , which bears the title “Standards for the Selection, Availability, and Access of School Li

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