To the editor: Not one dad or mum has formally challenged a e-book on the Huntington Seaside Public Library in 2023, mortgage card registrations have skyrocketed, and the summer time studying program has expanded by 120%. (“Huntington Seaside Will Let Neighbors Censor Neighbors’ Studying Selections. It is Incorrect,” Chief, Oct. 30)
However Mayor Professional Tem Gracey Van Der Mark and her conservative colleagues on the Huntington Seaside Metropolis Council imagine our library wants a whole overhaul, with a dad or mum evaluate committee of 21 political appointees. Books with the slightest reference to gender may be moved from the younger grownup or teenage part to the grownup part.
Our award-winning public library is being tarnished due to 4 people who’re extra enthusiastic about selling an ultra-right-wing political agenda than assembly the wants of 200,000 residents.
Carol Daus, Huntington Seaside
The writer is a board member of the Associates of the Huntington Seaside Public Library.
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To the editor: “E-book bans” usually make the information, so it is no shock that your editorial crew would soar on the “banned” bandwagon.
Media literacy courses are popping up in our excessive faculties as a result of educating vital literacy is vital. Your editorial discussing Huntington Seaside’s bulletin board ought to be required studying in these courses—as a basic instance of straw man development and demolition, very acceptable for an article revealed within the Halloween print version.
We’re advised that the Evaluate Committee is an instance of a e-book ban – instantly adopted by the admission that “no books presently sitting on the town’s library cabinets will probably be eliminated.” What the audit committee is tasked with doing is extra precisely known as “curation”, is not it?
The Instances fails to quote the U.S. Supreme Courtroom’s full Miller check, which was set out in a 1973 choice. It stated the evaluate course of should contain “the applying of recent societal requirements.” What higher method to try this than by making a evaluate board of group members?
Your straw man pants are on fireplace.
Todd Maddison, Oceanside
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To the editor: As a Huntington Seaside resident, dad or mum, former instructor, former Metropolis Council member, and avid reader, I’m outraged by the Metropolis Council majority’s interference with our glorious library system.
I agree with The Instances editorial – it’s improper. You do not have to learn between the strains to appreciate that the motion of this native authorities is just not solely authoritarian but additionally anti-intellectual.
We’ve issues proper right here in Surf Metropolis.
Tim Geddes, Huntington Seaside
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To the editor: Concern and loathing of books? Who would have thought that the nation that advocates freedom of speech is now the nation of oppression?
Jared Sloan, Silver Lake
