TODAY IS RIGHT TO READ DAY!

Hooray for our Constitutional right to receive speech through reading. Courts have long upheld this right, and recognize that libraries play a special role in the dissemination of information and ideas.  

Please stand up for your school and public libraries. Here's a letter to help public libraries across Ohio. Feel free to tailor it with your story about what libraries mean to you.

Dear [Ohio legislator]:

As a patron of public libraries, I need you to push back against the destructive House budget for libraries, restore the Public Library Fund, and fund it above year 2000 levels after inflation.

Please also remove the unconstitutional demand to hide all books "related to sexual orientation or gender identity or expression," which is illogical, illegal, unkind, and will further burden all public libraries, especially small ones, as well as causing harm to the people they serve.

Signed,