From mid-(March)-month comes this update from BookRiot covering libraries and librarians nationwide (including Idaho, by name) battling what is clearly a menacing foe:
Again, all of these bills are based on manufactured narratives about what is inside libraries, and their purpose is to go one step beyond banning the books. They’re there with the intention to destabilize and deprofessionalize the work of librarians, making for an easy way to defund them. That’s not to say that the people behind these bills don’t want libraries to exist. They do. They just want them to be privatized, for-profit institutions catering only to a specific demographic of people — not the whole of a community, which is the explicit purpose of democratic institutions like libraries.
banner image: detail of Eugène Delacroix’s La Liberté guidant le peuple
