Adults at school board meetings screaming at elected members about "groomer" and "pedophile" school librarians' books, programs, and displays. Politicians who repeat these claims and pledge to remove pornography from local schools. Public threats of physical harm or loss of livelihood against school librarians. The result of increasing instances of overt, concerted attempts to restrict our learners' access to materials and programs? Increasing admissions by school librarians that they feel forced to consider soft censorship. Many have had classroom teachers and administrators approach with informal concerns about titles, programs, or displays. Some have even had titles removed, displays taken down, and programs canceled outside school board policies. In School Library Journal's 2023 Controversial Book Survey, librarian reports that book challenges influenced their purchasing decisions for the library (across all grade levels) rose from 27% in 2022 to 37% in 2023. Twenty-four percent of respondents said they'd experienced harassment over books or displays in their library (Cockcroft 2023). School librarians as professionals must personally and organizationally address the very significant threat of self-/soft/quiet censorship. Organizations can track (and extrapolate) data on formal challenges, protests, and published complaints but the soft censorship that may be a consequence of these is much more insidious and likely detrimental to the goal of providing books, programs, and displays to meet a diverse range of diverse learner needs and interests. School librarians need both information and allies, including fellow educators and community members, to confront soft censorship in ourselves and others. It's critical to boost confidence in administration and classroom leaders that materials, displays, and programs align with curricular standards as well as school and district goals. It's important to specifically address the major targets in school libraries, including titles with LGBTQ and BIPOC characters, graphic novels, and manga, which constitute the majority of titles cited in lists of books formally challenged. Utilizing resources available for data-driven selection, deselection, displays, and programming in our schools can provide quantitative and qualitative support for ourselves and others.