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...
by Lakeland News | Aug 8, 2022 | Intellectual Freedom, Library News, News, Patmos Library
A group of concerned residents launched a campaign to stop a millage proposal from passing that would have funded Jamestown Township’s Patmos Library. The millage was voted on during the primary election on Tuesday, Aug. 2 and failed to pass by a rather large...
by Lakeland News | Aug 8, 2022 | Intellectual Freedom, Library News, News, Patmos Library
The Patmos Library in Jamestown Township, south of Hudsonville, is in danger of closing following Tuesday’s failed library millage renewal. According to Larry Walton, the library’s Board of Trustees president, a small group has been protesting outside...