CLN: People deserve access
Growing up in North Idaho, I learned about the world through books. Stories encouraged me to be compassionate toward others and challenged me to understand the world in new ways. Reading meant so much to me that I became a novelist.
As a reader, writer and Idahoan, I’m sad to see how the Community Library Network board is limiting access to books through an extreme interpretation of Idaho’s already extreme library law. The board has voted to move materials to adults-only rooms and eliminate all-access library cards for minors, and one board member even proposed an acquisition policy that would institute dramatic and prejudiced restrictions on the books CLN libraries can acquire.
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