by Lakeland News | Aug 8, 2022 | Intellectual Freedom, Library News, News, Patmos Library
A small West Michigan library was essentially defunded in this week’s primary election in a dispute over the LGBTQ+ material in its collection, although advocates say it represents more than just a dispute over books, but an assault on personal liberties. What is...
by Lakeland News | Aug 8, 2022 | Intellectual Freedom, Library News, News, Patmos Library
The Michigan Library Association stands in solidarity with the Patmos Library Board of Trustees on the decision to retain a small collection of LGBTQIA+ materials on their library shelves. We are equally disheartened to learn that continued funding for the library was...
by Lakeland News | Aug 8, 2022 | Intellectual Freedom, Library News, News, Patmos Library
Residents in a western Michigan town voted against a property tax increase that would have funded the local library after the building displayed LGBT literature. Jamestown Township, a small town located near Grand Rapids, voted down the proposed property tax increase...
by Lakeland News | Aug 8, 2022 | Intellectual Freedom, Library News, News, Patmos Library
A Michigan public library is in danger of closing after its staff refused to remove LGBTQ+ books from its collection and town residents voted to defund it, Bridge Michigan reports. Voters in Jamestown Township, a small community in west Michigan, declined to renew...
by Lakeland News | Aug 8, 2022 | Intellectual Freedom, Library News, News, Patmos Library
One of the fastest growing townships in western Michigan has decided that it would rather not have a local library if it means stocking children’s books about LGBTQ+ people. In a ballot measure that came to a vote this week, residents of Jamestown Township voted to...
by Lakeland News | Aug 8, 2022 | Intellectual Freedom, Library News, News, Patmos Library
The Authors Guild deplores the defunding and potential closure of the Patmos Public Library in Jamestown Township, Michigan. We were both outraged and saddened to learn that Jamestown Conservatives—a local Christian conservative group—has waged a public campaign...
