'Texas county weighs closing local library after federal judge orders banned books returned to circulation'
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1aspirit
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/llano-county-texas-weighs-closing-local-lib...
Because a federal judge ruled Llano County's book banning is a violation of the U.S. Constitution, the Texan county commission is considering closing its entire public library system to block access to the books.
• Isabel Wilkerson’s Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents
• Susan Campbell Bartoletti's They Called Themselves the K.K.K.: The Birth of an American Terrorist Group
• the graphic novel memoir Spinning by Tillie Walden
• the memoir Being Jazz by Jazz Jennings
• Robie H. Harris’ It’s Perfectly Normal: Changing Bodies, Growing Up, Sex, and Sexual Health
• Maurice Sendak’s In the Night Kitchen
• Jane Bexley's silly Larry the Farting Leprechaun, Gary the Goose and His Gas on the Loose, Freddie the Farting Snowman, and Harvey the Heart Has Too Many Farts
• Dawn McMillan’s I Need a New Butt! series
• Shine and Under the Moon: A Catwoman Tale by Lauren Myracle
Llano County has already ended its digital loan program to cut residents from accessing 17,000 ebooks.
Additional source: https://twitter.com/FReadomFighters/status/1641558968739803137 (for an image from the ruling)
Because a federal judge ruled Llano County's book banning is a violation of the U.S. Constitution, the Texan county commission is considering closing its entire public library system to block access to the books.
• Isabel Wilkerson’s Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents
• Susan Campbell Bartoletti's They Called Themselves the K.K.K.: The Birth of an American Terrorist Group
• the graphic novel memoir Spinning by Tillie Walden
• the memoir Being Jazz by Jazz Jennings
• Robie H. Harris’ It’s Perfectly Normal: Changing Bodies, Growing Up, Sex, and Sexual Health
• Maurice Sendak’s In the Night Kitchen
• Jane Bexley's silly Larry the Farting Leprechaun, Gary the Goose and His Gas on the Loose, Freddie the Farting Snowman, and Harvey the Heart Has Too Many Farts
• Dawn McMillan’s I Need a New Butt! series
• Shine and Under the Moon: A Catwoman Tale by Lauren Myracle
Llano County has already ended its digital loan program to cut residents from accessing 17,000 ebooks.
Additional source: https://twitter.com/FReadomFighters/status/1641558968739803137 (for an image from the ruling)
2aspirit
"When the information needs of thousands of Llano County residents are at the mercy of a vocal minority’s prejudices, and when elected officials set out to deny library users to access to books and resources containing ideas and viewpoints with which county officials disagree, we must all speak out,” Deborah Caldwell-Stone, director of the ALA's Office for Intellectual Freedom, told Motherboard.
Source: https://www.vice.com/en/article/jg58x8/texas-officials-would-rather-close-librar...
