13-07-2025 13:08 via publiclibrariesnews.com

As in Georgia so in Kent?

EditorialThe thing that most springs out to me this Sunday is that the USA state of Georgia has dismissed a librarian for putting a LGBT book in a children’s display. This isn’t of course what made it stand out to me. Such things have been happening there for years. No, what makes it stand out to me is that this is now, apart from a few differences in labour laws, officially also the policy in Kent.
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