Libraries

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A committee charged with deciding which books should stay in the children’s section of the Helen Hall Library still isn’t fully formed, and some council members are questioning the need for the new committee while others worry its membership isn’t diverse enough.

Galveston County Library Alliance formed in early February in response to League City council members taking controversial action to restrict children from having easy access to certain books in the Helen Hall Library.

“The newly anointed Community Standards Review Committee will decide what we can or cannot read,” Katherine Swanson, spokeswoman for the alliance said in a recent press release.

Members of St. Mary's five-person city commission, all of whom are members of an extreme Catholic religious sect, have threatened to pull the lease of the public library if they don't remove all LGBTQ+ and other "socially divisive" books from the shelves. Their efforts have drawn a warning from the ACLU of Kansas.

My local library has two books on how to use google+. Should I mention to them that they’re obsolete? I suppose they’ll get chucked out eventually anyway…