Just stumbled across a case of censorship at my local library.

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71. In my library...

a library staff member cannot be on the library board. I'm' a retired library administrator and have worked in all areas of a public library and a law library. I've also been an adjunct library board member - one with no voting privileges. As someone else on here has already stated, most people don't make any effort to understand how a public library works or even uses their public library.

Is your library part of a library cooperative or has privileges through your state library? If your own library doesn't carry an item (smaller libraries can't afford to carry everything), then most of the time you can borrow it from another library in the state's system or the cooperative's system using your library card. Smaller libraries have limited budgets and librarians have to choose what they purchase.

In smaller towns it's often difficult to get anyone to be on the library board. Larger towns have elected board members. Some boards pay a nominal amount to board members; others do not. Your library board meetings are open to the public, so if you are really interested in "keeping an eye on them", attend a board meeting.

I think you're jumping to conclusions with this one.