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Residents and business group press Lincoln council on library content and contracting transparency
Summary
Two members of the public used the open microphone to urge council action: a longtime teacher criticized young-adult library selections including a Heartstopper volume and asked the council to investigate city libraries; the Lincoln Independent Business Association raised allegations about recent city contracting practices and disqualification of local bidders, saying an awarded contract was $4.3 million higher than the lowest bid.
At the open-microphone portion of the Dec. 15 Lincoln City Council meeting, two speakers raised sharply contrasting public concerns that the council did not act on during the session.
Ellie Palmer, a teacher who said she lives at 1615 South 6th Street and represents youth in the South near South neighborhood, told the council she reviewed the South Branch library’s young-adult shelves after her 12-year-old granddaughter checked out Volume 5 of Heartstopper (Alice Oseman). Palmer described the volume’s content as inappropriate for young readers and criticized what she described as a lack of classic literature on the branch’s YA…
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