A move to ban book bans: AB 416 seeks protections for librarians while letting courts—not boards—decide on book-removal requests

A move to ban book bans: AB 416 seeks protections for librarians while letting courts—not boards—decide on book-removal requests

On Wednesday, April 16, the people who have been showing up at Washoe County Library Board of Trustees meetings to decry the inclusion of books with LGBTQ+ and ethnic/racial themes finally got one of their wishes: Jeff Scott, the library director since December 2015, no longer had the job, after his resignation following a negative evaluation from the trustees. Putting aside Scott’s actual job performance—although it should be noted that his fel…

Radnor School Board votes to return 3 books previously removed from library

RADNOR — The Radnor School Board voted Tuesday night to return three books to a school library that a committee voted to remove earlier this year. The books “Gender Queer” by Maia Kobab; “Blankets” by Craig Thompson; and “Fun Home” by Alison Bechdel, were removed from the Radnor High School library. The books were removed after the district received a challenge under its current policy 144.1. The “Selection Policy for Radnor Township School Dist…

Let’s Not Ban Books – Sierra Nevada Ally

Fahrenheit 451, arbyreed, creative commons, 2.0 Some time ago a group of people in the county where I live in northwest Nevada got the idea that our county libraries were infested with pornography, and by God they were going to get rid of it. They got organized courtesy of a local church, where some of them are members. They ride in the church van to public meetings, where they share their practiced talking points.  They’ve been busy as bees, an…