Among the week's headlines: check out the new edition of EveryLibrary's The Political Librarian; North Carolina slips new book challenge rules into its budget bill; concerns mount in Florida over a proposal to slash property taxes; and academic libraries face a 'structural' transformation.
The suit comes after Hargett ordered library leaders across the state to ensure their collections were in compliance with a Trump executive order on gender identity. But executive orders are not laws, the suit asserts, and Hargett lacked the authority to order the 'unconstitutional' reviews.
"When we allow political groups to pull books that feature marginalized characters, we are sending a clear, devastating message to students that their stories, their identities, and their very lives do not matter," Jones said. "We cannot, and we will not, abide by that."
