{Loudoun County, Virginia} Controversial Library Board Appointee Resigns

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12. Libraries are political footballs too

because they have budgets to spend on books and materials

Trustees can be tilted one way or another politically, and does
that influence the books they buy? Trustees tend to be DAR and
local businesswomen or wives older than 50 or 60, generally speaking.
How are they appointed/selected?

I'm told libraries select books based on recommendations from master
library lists, that sometimes they are even required to purchase books

The public can submit recommendations, but even classics are rejected
if they're not popular and too lefty

That said, is there a political balance?

My main public library would get 6 Limbaugh copies, but only
occasionally buy a Nobel prize winner's liberal tome, and only one
copy countywide of a liberal radio host's book. Are they meeting
demand, or promulgating a point of view, or censoring those they
don't agree with?

Who decides how the public's money is spent?

And are all the teeny bopper PG and R movies suitable for a library?
I wouldn't pay a dime to see any of them, do they have redeeming
social value? Ok a way to relax for an evening, but, you know, do they
have merit?