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The Fresno County Public Library was founded in 1910 and housed at that time in the Fresno City Library building, which had been constructed in 1904 with a $30,000 donation from philanthropist Andrew Carnegie.
Supervisor Steve Brandau’s resolution to the Fresno County Board of Supervisors is to form a group that will review books in the children’s section of the library for content. It’s something ...
According to the American Library Association, 4,240 book titles were targeted for censorship in 2023 at public and school libraries – a 92% increase from the previous year. Books about LGBTQ ...
It is not the responsibility of the public library system to censor which children’s books they have access to. To ask public libraries to do a parent’s job for them is nothing short of lazy ...
Books Unbanned is a United States library program that issues library cards nationwide from regional libraries in order to give electronic access to the library's digital and audio collections to teens and young adults living in U.S. locations where books are being challenged.
In 2009, the library underwent a major $105 million renovation that was largely financed by a multimillion-dollar endowment from the Table Mountain Rancheria, a Casino operated by the Chukchansi tribes of California. [4] Michael Gorman, the former dean of the library, was the president of the American Library Association in 2005–2006.
Fresno County’s Board of Supervisors recently created a special panel to review books in children’s sections at county libraries after some people complained about books dealing with gay and ...
A divided Fresno County Board of Supervisors approved a proposal by Supervisor Steve Brandau to establish a process to remove books and materials from children’s sections of county libraries if ...