NPR: “The Battle Over Book Bans Takes a Toll on Librarians and Comes at a Financial Cost”
NPR: “The Battle Over Book Bans Takes a Toll on Librarians and Comes at a Financial Cost”
How librarians, kids and the country are paying for the ongoing rancor : NPR
It’s been a year since the start of what one librarian here calls “The Troubles.” That’s when once-boring meetings of the Livingston Parish Library Board of Control started devolving into bitter brawls over books that some consider to be too sexual and harmful to kids. Meetings have been laced with insults, interruptions and the kind of profanity that would probably get you kicked out of the library.
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