COLUMBIA COUNTY, Ga. (WRDW/WAGT) – The number of the library board in Columbia County is not going to change after elected officers voted to withdraw from the regional library system to develop into a single area.
County Supervisor Scott Johnson assures patrons they’ll proceed to obtain the identical providers on the library.
The change is not going to impression funding both.
So, why break free from the regional system?
Johnson stated a number of patrons went by the reconsideration course of for a number of books they believed didn’t belong within the library.
Board members from Columbia County helped cross having sure books moved from the younger grownup part, sixth by twelfth grade, to the grownup part for the area, together with books that depict sketches of bare kids and physique elements.
Now, a few of the different counties inside the regional system need that call reversed.
Johnson says that is what led elected officers to vote to take away themselves from the regional group final night time.
“I do really feel as a county, I do really feel we must always have the flexibility if we’re paying upwards of three million to function in the best way the county sees match,” stated Johnson.
Whereas some books have been moved to different sections within the library, Johnson assures patrons no books have been banned.
“There isn’t any intent right here to maneuver books to a bit the place no person will test them out, so hopefully they are going to be phased away. That’s not the intent. I’ve heard the time period ‘shadow boxing’ and that the county is doing all this nefarious exercise, that’s not the case. There are books I noticed early on that I say for me personally, not as a county supervisor, however for me personally, shock the conscience.”
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