![]() ![]() This updated Collection Development Policy comes alongside a new library board for the Hamilton East Public Library, which elected four new members last year. ![]() ![]() This comprehensive review requires staff members to read each book cover-to-cover and is, according to the library's own documentation, expected to take up to 8000 hours of work, impacting up to 11,000 items in the library, and costing up to $300,000. With a wave of book bans sweeping the country, the two locations of Indiana's Hamilton East Public Library are reviewing every single book in their children and teen sections for titles it considers to not be "age appropriate," which, by their definition, are any texts which include “nudity, alcohol and drug use, repeated use of profanity, depictions or incitement to violence, and sexual content.”īooks deemed lacking in age appropriateness will be removed from the Children and YA sections, but will still remain available for all library patrons. ![]()
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