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Public urges Hernando County to cancel BookPage library subscription; attorney explains challenge process
Summary
Several speakers told the board that Hernando County Libraries' BookPage magazine promotes 'woke' content and should be canceled; county attorney and library staff explained the library's materials-challenge procedure and that the subscription is funded from state aid, not the library's operations budget.
Multiple public commenters asked Hernando County commissioners on April 14 to end the county libraries’ BookPage subscription, calling the magazine unnecessarily political and ideological and arguing it promotes material they do not want distributed in library branches.
"Hernando Public Libraries presently have a subscription to a magazine called BookPage," said Carol Yekim Oalvelo, a member of the public, who framed her…
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