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Parents, Librarians and Board Debate Yavapai Library Network Access and Parental Notification
Summary
Parents and school librarians urged the Humboldt Unified School District board to tighten parental oversight of materials accessed through the Yavapai Library Network; the board asked staff to return with options including opt‑in, better parent tutorials and notification protocols before the district’s July renewal deadline.
Christy McDonald, a parent, told the Humboldt Unified School District board she is dissatisfied with how the district’s relationship with the Yavapai Library Network (YLN) handles parents’ ability to see and approve books their children check out using school-assigned library cards. "Parents have said they never received instruction on how to access the titles of books checked out by their children at school," McDonald said during the meeting’s public participation period.
Deborah Reynolds, a library paraprofessional at Humboldt Elementary School, told the board YLN has expanded students’ access and brought grants that she said supplied “well over $10,000 in new books” to her…
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