XPost: alt.fan.rush-limbaugh, alt.politics
On 4/23/25 10:52 AM, Lee wrote:
Bradley K. Sherman wrote:
|
| Fairhope Public Library declines to move challenged books
| amid APLS spat
|
| The move comes as the Alabama Public Library Service has
| asserted that the Fairhope library is not in compliance
| with state code.
| ...
<https://www.alreporter.com/2025/04/22/fairhope-library-declines-to-move-challenged-books-amid-apls-spat/>
--bks
Too bad the U.S. Navy is too pusillanimous to take a stand.
I remember one library that got
so tired over the "not appropriate
for children" book fights they made
the whole library adults-only.
Not that the MAGAs care, their
Project 2025 handlers would prefer
to close all public libraries. And
parks, and swimming pools. Privatize
everything!
That'll solve it ! :-)
However there's a bigger question of whether
public libraries still serve much of a purpose.
The Net provides WIDE access to most of what
almost everybody wants to know. Specialty
libraries - private/university - will still
be of use for researching old, never-scanned,
material. Even typical public school libraries,
do we REALLY need 'em anymore ? The kiddies
don't read fer shit anymore, they surf.
Over 20 years ago my county opened a shiny
new public library. In all that time the only
reason I've ever even entered the building
was for early voting.
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