Public policy can shape which books are available, how libraries and schools serve their communities, how creative work is used and valued, and whether the institutions connecting books with readers can remain strong.
ACRE’s policy work connects proposed laws and regulations to those real-world consequences. We bring legal analysis, publishing and literary-sector expertise, research, and coalition relationships to discussions that often involve complex and competing interests.
Our work can include freedom-to-read protections, responses to restrictions on books, library and access policy, copyright and creative-work questions, and emerging issues involving artificial intelligence. The subjects may change; the organizing question remains constant: what will this mean for readers and for the culture that creates and shares books?
This page will feature legislative updates, policy briefs, testimony, explainers, and analysis designed to support informed public discussion and better policymaking.
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