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Arlington City Council members removed the Library Advisory Board chair for comments made in a private Facebook group during the height of a debate over LGBTQ Pride Month displays. While officials said the move will bring closure, critics –including the ousted chair and other board members– said council gave in to “bullies.”
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After hours of contentious back and forth, Arlington's library advisory board came up with a compromise in the debate about LGBTQ Pride month displays: give the books a dedicated space in each age-range section of the library, and keep June displays to the teen and adult sections.
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The survey, which closes a day before the Library Advisory Board discusses the policy, comes after the board spent hours debating the policies and fielding public comment.
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Arlington's Library Advisory Board may restrict LGBTQ-themed displays from the children's and young adult sections of city libraries at the behest of local pastors and people who believe all books with LGBTQ characters touch on sexual acts.
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As communities and school districts push for book bans, some Texas librarians are nearing their breaking point.
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The Texas Education Agency developed new school library standards that give parents more of a role in which books their children can read, gives school boards final say over all new books and establishes a book review committee if a parent files a complaint.
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Grab your legwarmers. The library's celebrating like it's 1982.
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For sale: A 250,000-square foot, three-story building on more than two acres of prime downtown real estate in one of the fastest growing cities in the country. Only one issue, it's currently the Central Library.
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UNT received a federal grant to digitally preserve audio and video recordings from the archive of The Black Academy of Arts and Letters, representing more than 40 years of Black cultural expression.
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Some Texas residents are asking for greater say in what titles appear on public library shelves.
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Now even students and teachers at private schools, colleges and universities in Dallas can get a public library card.
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Areas known as book deserts are low on reading material and places like libraries and bookstores. A school district northwest of Fort Worth, which is located in such a desert, provide students with books during the summer through a mobile library initiative.