because I like libraries so much I read this entire excellent report. I'll note there is a process - if you dislike something a librarian has done, one can appeal to the Director, or beyond that the Board which oversees the library, a Board appointed by elected officials so that is their additional input. I once used it myself to protest what I thought was too restrictive a posting policy on their bulletin board, and it has gotten less restrictive. All this has worked reasonably well. Rep Newberry knows this just as he knows full well there is a Republican-led national movement, primarily of active homophobes and anti-anti racists, or people who think there is political advantage in pandering to that, to attack librarians, the ALA, and even libraries themselves, to suppress other views and to keep other parents who want their kids to be able to read books sensitive to racial justice or gay issues from being able to do so. So I thank the sponsor and all who testified for the bill, sorry I didn't get to help at the hearing
The people trying to ban books are all on one side of the political ledger, the fascist.republican side. Moms for Liberty is definitely not in favor of real liberty.They do not want people to learn about the real world. First they come for the books on gender wanting to pretend that everyone is straight and nothing else should be in a library,, then they come for the books on race, can't be teaching about slavery or Jim crow or else it will be harder to reinstitute it, then they come for the books on climate, then they come for the books on history.
Brian Newbury thinks he “personally” is paying the library bills and librarians salary. No Brian, it’s the tax payers. You are a public servant, not a king.
For what it's worth, part of what I said apparently dissolved into cyberspace. "You can take them [your children] into the children's room because the librarians sort the books. When they get older, and don't want to be seen with parents, you can go to the library with them and say, "OK, I'll get my books and you get yours, and I'll meet you at the desk and we'll see what we each got."
That last part got dissolved. Not a big deal, but otherwise it doesn't make sense.
because I like libraries so much I read this entire excellent report. I'll note there is a process - if you dislike something a librarian has done, one can appeal to the Director, or beyond that the Board which oversees the library, a Board appointed by elected officials so that is their additional input. I once used it myself to protest what I thought was too restrictive a posting policy on their bulletin board, and it has gotten less restrictive. All this has worked reasonably well. Rep Newberry knows this just as he knows full well there is a Republican-led national movement, primarily of active homophobes and anti-anti racists, or people who think there is political advantage in pandering to that, to attack librarians, the ALA, and even libraries themselves, to suppress other views and to keep other parents who want their kids to be able to read books sensitive to racial justice or gay issues from being able to do so. So I thank the sponsor and all who testified for the bill, sorry I didn't get to help at the hearing
The people trying to ban books are all on one side of the political ledger, the fascist.republican side. Moms for Liberty is definitely not in favor of real liberty.They do not want people to learn about the real world. First they come for the books on gender wanting to pretend that everyone is straight and nothing else should be in a library,, then they come for the books on race, can't be teaching about slavery or Jim crow or else it will be harder to reinstitute it, then they come for the books on climate, then they come for the books on history.
Brian Newbury thinks he “personally” is paying the library bills and librarians salary. No Brian, it’s the tax payers. You are a public servant, not a king.
For what it's worth, part of what I said apparently dissolved into cyberspace. "You can take them [your children] into the children's room because the librarians sort the books. When they get older, and don't want to be seen with parents, you can go to the library with them and say, "OK, I'll get my books and you get yours, and I'll meet you at the desk and we'll see what we each got."
That last part got dissolved. Not a big deal, but otherwise it doesn't make sense.
Thanks for printing this whole thing.
My apologies for messing that.