Library Restores Funds for Books in Spanish
Faced with public protests, the public library board in Gwinnett County, outside Atlanta, is expected to restore the funding it cut for Spanish-language fiction.
Trustees of the Gwinnett County Public Library will meet Wednesday to ratify the decision before the library’s budget year begins July 1, officials said.
“We heard from people on both sides of the issue and we heard from a lot of the press,” board Chairman Lloyd Breck told the Gwinnett Daily Post. “We are choosing to restore that line item.”
The board voted at its June 12 meeting to cut $3,000 it had set aside for Spanish translations of popular fiction. One out of six residents of the county, population 700,000, is Latino.
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