Hello from Yoakum County Library in Plains!

Good Afternoon from Amarillo Public

Hello from Diboll High School

Hi from Austin!

Hello from San Antonio. I’m the Education Librarian at Texas A&M University-San Antonio

Hello from Our Lady of the Lake University in San Antonio, TX!

Hello from Humble

Hello from PSJA!

Hello from Waller!

Hello from Danbury!

Hello from Hutto!

Hello from Victoria College!

Make sure to post Questions in Q&A, Mary Woodard will pose these questions to the panelists, time permitting.

Hello from Fort Worth 🐴

I am not hearing any sound --help?

if you click on audio settings in the bottom right of your Zoom screen, you can increase the volume of the speaker

sorry, bottom left corner

Hello from Leander Public Library

Would love a link to that explanation from the Sheriff.

ALA Office of Intellectual Freedom https://www.ala.org/aboutala/offices/oif

https://www.tasb.org/services/legal-services/tasb-school-law-esource/instruction/documents/instructional-materials-and-library-books-in-tx-public-schs.pdf

I think TASB white paper is very helpful as a resource to share with your district personnel.

https://txla.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/12/TASB-Instructional-Materials-Library-Books-TX-Public-Schools-nov2021.pdf

Those standards which we just rewrote a couple of years ago 🙂

Freedom to Read Foundation https://www.ftrf.org/

When we order books we select them ourselves typically based on reviews, awards lists, etc.

REMINDER: Make sure to post Questions in the Q&A panel. Mary Woodard will pose these questions to the panelists, time permitting.

The policy should stay that way.

Individual books are different, obviously.

good to know!

Thank you!

Is "superintendent privilege" a real thing? The superintendent of the district I live in summarily removed a book from the high school library without following policy. His justification was that he has "superintendent privilege."

Sorry! Wrong place!

Belts and suspenders are always good!

Have to run, but THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU for this very valuable session. I appreciate your time and sharing your expertise.

Thank you so much! Very informational!

What is your guidance to school boards and administrators - TASB?

I think sometimes administrators don’t realize that.

Thanks so much. Very informative and helpful

English teachers and librarians are trained to listen and just understand that parents want to be heard about book content.

Thank you! This has been very helpful. I'm a public librarian helping many school libraries through all their challenges. Knowing the ins and outs in school library policies and laws is extremely helpful. Thank you so much!

Fascinating discussion, thanks so much! Great selection of panelists, TLA!

Thank you!

Thank you!

Thank you so much!! This was very helpful!!

Thank you for this. The information was very helpful!

Thank you! This was super helpful.

Thank you

Thank you!!