In her time as a Texas school librarian, Carolyn Foote watched the image of her profession veer from "shrinking violets behind spectacles" cataloging titles to "pedophiles and groomers" out to pollute.
A librarian in Michigan has seen her place of work become a lightening rod for a group of radical conservatives seeking to ban books they believe promote pornography or LGBTQ causes.
Conservatives vilify school librarians as "groomers and pedophiles" for stocking LGBTQ and racially themed books. "We have been cursed," said one librarian.