BATON ROUGE, La. — As controversy swells in Louisiana over library content, the House Committee on Education voted 8-3 Tuesday to advance a bill that would require public libraries to
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.
Conservatives vilify school librarians as "groomers and pedophiles" for stocking LGBTQ and racially themed books. "We have been cursed," said one librarian.