Home > Topics > Speech > Libraries & First Amendment   By The Associated Press Changes in the Patriot Act provision affecting public libraries have prompted the ACLU to drop its lawsuit. FULL STORY>     4 sex books to stay on Kan. library shelves Board of Trustees for Topeka & Shawnee County Library reverses course, voting 7-3 to keep challenged titles available to the public, including minors. 04.21.09   Kite Runner among last year's most challenged books American Library Association listed 513 challenges in 2008, an increase of 93 from 2007, but well below the levels of 700 and higher in the 1990s. 04.16.09  SEARCH  MORE Libraries & First Amendment issues > Banned books Internet Filters & Public Libraries Patriot Act