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littlemissmartypants

(31,434 posts) Sat Dec 13, 2025, 01:00 PM Dec 13

Randolph commissioners dismiss entire library board after book controversy

...Monday night ...

The move comes two months after trustees voted to keep a picture book, "Call Me Max," about a transgender boy in the children’s section.

Nearly 200 people showed up to the public hearing on the future of the library board.

After two hours of public comments from folks on both sides of the issue, the commissioners voted 3-2 to remove all of the trustees, and dissolve the existing bylaws that govern them.

Commissioner Hope Haywood says she believes the intention is to appoint new members down the line, and develop new rules for that process. But she would have liked to have had those plans in place before dismissing all of the trustees.
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https://www.wfae.org/2025-12-09/randolph-commissioners-dismiss-entire-library-board-after-book-controversy

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Randolph commissioners dismiss entire library board after book controversy (Original Post) littlemissmartypants Dec 13 OP

County commissioners Jilly_in_VA Dec 13 #1

Library boards can be tools bucolic_frolic Dec 13 #2

Time to sue some commissioners for improper procedures. OldBaldy1701E Dec 13 #3

Jilly_in_VA

(13,783 posts)

1. County commissioners

Reply to littlemissmartypants (Original post)

Sat Dec 13, 2025, 01:08 PM

Dec 13

should have no say on what's IN the library. This whole thing is brought by probably ONE person, who hasn't read any of the books in question. That's usually the way it goes.

bucolic_frolic

(53,794 posts)

2. Library boards can be tools

Reply to littlemissmartypants (Original post)

Sat Dec 13, 2025, 01:11 PM

Dec 13

Often pillars of the (conservative) community - businessmen, do-gooders, real estate execs, and the like. Fine.

But ours got sort of privatized, is it a NGO? I don't know how it's characterized. Now it has a CEO. There have been book wars, I think reversed, mostly. But I did see a racist book in the remaining mix. Maybe tolerance is best, let the public decide by what they read.

But that's a problem too. Most books recommended by Library Association? A national thing that pushes titles on libraries. But why do we get every last conservative screed that comes along, but no Thom Hartman? It's a broken system. And the library has the gall to pump the public for money. I wouldn't give them a dime.

OldBaldy1701E

(9,990 posts)

3. Time to sue some commissioners for improper procedures.

Reply to littlemissmartypants (Original post)

Sat Dec 13, 2025, 05:34 PM

Dec 13

They had no plan or group ready to replace them. I am not sure that is copacetic in such matters.

Of course, this is a rather rural part of the state. The whole thing is pretty much in Asheboro.

Which is not the most... progressive... part of the state.

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