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Baker County Library board updates policy for challenging books, other materials

By IAN CRAWFORD Baker City Herald,

27 days ago
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The Baker County Library recently added steps to its material review process this week, following a 65% increase in ban requests nationally, a trend not yet seen locally. Ian Crawford/Baker City Herald

The Baker County Library District hasn’t been a target of challenges seeking to remove books and other materials due to their content, but the district’s board is aware of an increase in such complaints nationally.

“The library board and I are concerned about the explosion of challenges to the right to read in libraries of recent years,” library director Perry Stokes said. “It is important that public libraries raise the bar for challenges in order to protect taxpayer resources while still providing accountability and due process to the community. Many libraries in the nation can incur costs in the thousands of dollars from responding to challenges.”

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