The Alabama Public Library Service has voted to not renew its American Library Association (ALA) membership. This comes after some in the state have accused the ALA — the oldest and largest library affiliation in the world — of selling Marxism, supporting holding sexual content material in libraries, and discriminating in opposition to spiritual organizations.
In October, Governor Kay Ivey even threatened a funding lower to the state’s public libraries in the event that they didn’t enable extra parental supervision inside libraries.
It was as a result of of the “distraction” brought on by all of this discourse surrounding the state’s libraries that the resolution was made to chop ties with the ALA, although native public libraries are at present free to handle their very own respective ALA memberships.
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