> The vote result was so lopsided that there's no way the library board didn't see it coming. I tend to trust librarians (mostly) to know what they are doing.

> The vote result was so lopsided that there's no way the library board didn't see it coming. I tend to trust librarians (mostly) to know what they are doing. I think we have to be careful listening to the mob which I speculate the majority don't have library cards, have read a book in the last year or even have taken their kids to the library. I worry that the mob will start saying we need to remove books based on religious beliefs (e.g. evolution) or climate change or pretty anything they don't fully understand or want to understand. "Maybe my son/daughter wouldn't have been X if they hadn't read Y". >But as the letter in the article pointed out, there were other similar books that were in the kids' section I think it's worth knowing exactly what those books are before painting it with the same brush as that graphic novel. Teenage years are kinda hard for a lot of kids especially if they have non-majority sexual viewpoints. If they are going to the library to understand 'stuff' about themselves, it's worth considering that librarians may have more experience in books (and where to put them) and it might actually be helping them.