“A group came to ban books, and a group came to defend books, and nobody changed their mind.”
“Many of the books that are contained in the library have really little-to-no redeeming benefits,” Dasinger told the council. “We fear that the impact of these books to young adults and juveniles may result in mental health issues and unnecessary loss of innocence. I’ve read several excerpts from these books, and they’re basically pornographic in nature.”
The librarian, who declined to comment on the backlash, has received support from members of the community and coworkers at the library since that meeting.they were informed personally by Dasinger that he planned to attend the city council meeting to speak about library books. “This is not a city council issue, this is a library issue,” Robinson said. “The library has a board, and I would expect everybody who has expressed an opinion tonight will express that opinion to the board.”
A few speakers said parents are responsible for what their kids read at the library, not the librarians. “They’re not here because they’re with her right now at a teen program that she provides,” Pryor said, adding that, at the library, her child has “learned community leadership, she has put on plays, she has learned interpersonal skills.”“In a typical year, we have no — as in zero — or maybe one request to reconsider a book purchase, and we have a process for that,” Johnson said. “In the last three weeks, we’ve had three requests, each with a book list, totaling some 55 books.
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