Library exodus: Conservative political groups use book ban ideology to attack advocacy association
After parents in a rural and staunchly conservative Wyoming county joined nationwide pressure on librarians to pull books they considered harmful to youngsters. The local library board obliged with new policies making such books a higher priority for removal, and keeping out of collections. But that is not all the library board has done. Campbell County also withdrew from the American Library Association, in what’s become a movement against the professional organization that has fought against book bans. This summer, the state libraries in Montana, Missouri, and Texas and the local library in Midland, Texas, announced they’re leaving the...
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