How are public libraries addressing rising concerns about their transformation into purveyors of radical racial and sexual ideology? The same way any bureaucratic organization would handle bad PR: hiring “impartial” third-party experts who share librarians’ ideological opinions, hosting carefully managed and curated “listening sessions,” and producing boring, abstruse documents that minimize criticism of that bureaucracy. At least, that’s what’s happening at Mary Riley Styles Public Library (MRSPL) in the city of Falls Church, Virginia.
MRSPL in November hosted a forum to solicit community input on the library’s future direction. The library also solicited public opinion via surveys, which even kids
