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St. Mary's County library trustees postpone vote, ask staff to rewrite materials and programs policies
Summary
Trustees asked staff to remove or rephrase American Library Association (ALA) language from draft materials and programs policies and return with a revised draft for board review; the board voted to delay adoption pending staff revision.
The Board of Library Trustees of St. Mary's County voted to delay adoption of revised materials and programs policies and asked library staff to rework the drafts to remove or reframe portions drawn from American Library Association (ALA) statements.
Trustees said they support the principles the ALA expresses but objected to long, rhetorically charged passages that they said read as national positions rather than local policy. "The wording is often preachy, amateurish, and overblown," said Jim Hanley, vice president of…
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