2024/01/31 by Andrew Thomas Sulavik
paper · doi:10.7936/pollib.8846
This editorial summarizing a county meeting where a vote was taken to defund the county public library system’s institutional membership to the American Library Association (ALA) and the zero-sum thinking that supported it. It is a scenario that is repeatedly playing out throughout the country at both state and local levels. The rationale behind it needs to be understood before steps to curtail it can be taken.