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It is our honor to serve the people of Livingston Parish.

As always, we will continue to evaluate our funds, services, and statistics, and we will inform the public of any other changes to services that become necessary.

We thank the public for its patronage, understanding, and support of the Livingston Parish Library.

We realize these service changes may come as unfortunate news to many of our patrons, but please know that the Library remains committed to delivering high-quality, professional services while maximizing all available resources.

Both items will remain in the Livingston Parish Library’s collection for now, but the library will no longer replace them when they become lost or damaged. The library also will not be able to fulfill patrons’ requests for these items.

Beginning on January 1, 2025, the Livingston Parish Library will stop purchasing the following items:

-- Launchpads
-- Video Games

duration of the loan period.

Beginning on January 1, 2025, Livingston Parish residents will not be able to check out the following eContent items:

-- eVideos
-- eMusic

Beginning on January 1, 2025, Livingston Parish residents will no longer have access to Kanopy, a video-streaming platform.

For patrons who use hoopla, there is no need to cancel or delete their accounts: Starting at midnight on January 1, 2025, patrons will simply no longer be able to browse or borrow hoopla content. However, those who have borrowed items on hoopla will have access to those items for the

📢📢📢 IMPORTANT ANNOUNCEMENT 📢📢📢

The public should be aware of Livingston Parish Library services that will be affected in 2025.

Beginning on January 1, 2025, the Livingston Parish Library will deactivate access to hoopla.

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They will defund our library. If you live in Livingston Parish, contact ALL of the Parish Council and ask that they remove the board members working against the library staff and our residents (with their own twisted agenda).

They cannot be allowed to continue to defund and degrade our libraries.

This is what happens when local government becomes far right in their agenda. This is currently happening in Livingston Parish, La.

This is just the beginning of what the library board is planning.

From book battles to a budget breakdown: Inside the turmoil in Livingston Parish libraries Here's what the Livingston Parish Library Board of Control couldn't agree on and what challenged books it's reviewing next.

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Mr. John Mangus - jmangus@lpcgov.com

Mr. Ricky Goff - rgoff@lpcgov.com

Mr. Dean Coates - dcoates@lpcgov.com

Mr. Joseph Erdey - jerdey@lpcgov.com

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fictional city of Oceania from George Orwell's 1984.

The contact emails for the Livingston Parish Council members are:

Mr. Ryan Chavers - rchavers@lpcgov.com

Mr. Billy Taylor - btaylor@lpcgov.com

Mr. Lonnie Watts - lwatts@lpcgov.com

Mr. John Wascom - jwascom@lpcgov.com

new appointees will then have barely over a week to read five books, though, before the Dec. "special" meeting, a task that is almost impossible for new appointees.

The ENTIRE Livingston Parish Council NEEDS to be aware that they ARE being viewed by the entire nation to see if they are becoming the

outpouring of emails to Mr. Chavers and Mr. Taylor showing that the entire nation is watching the parish council members and the Library Board of Control members to see if the community is slowly becoming the fictional city of Oceania from George Orwell's 1984. We also have to remember that the

had individuals of our parish attempt or even intimidate and harass librarians and past members of the board who have opposed the right/far-right beliefs.

Former members of the board who were removed have been called groomers and pedophiles on social media.

More than ever, there needs to be an

Chavers and Taylor said they would appoint their new members at the next Parish Council meeting Dec. 5. (This is decision NEEDS to be made with the knowledge that the new members represent the entire district.)

I personally believe that current members of the Library Board of Control have

and Mr. Chavers MUST be reminded that they represent their ENTIRE community, including the diverse community members such as the different religious, non-religious, and the LGBTQIA, along with others that don't fall into the traditional right/far-right community.)

our professionals, our educated and trained professionals to handle those situations,” Gonzalez said. 

It is up to parish councilmen Billy Taylor and Ryan Chavers to fill the two library board vacancies, possibly ending the stalemate by seating all nine board members. (Mr. Taylor

be making these choices. (I agree wholeheartedly with this statement as most times the leaders of these communities, especially a right/far-right community like ours is less tolerant of those that dont align with their beliefs or views.)

“We need to just trust our librarians and trust our staff,

he was referring to DIDN’T include many other people in the community, just holier the than thou, right/far-right community.)

Jordan Gonzalez, parish resident, argued the community is bigger than those who attend the board meetings and those who attend church, and ultimately the librarians should

because the library is funded from the community’s property taxes, the community should choose what books are appropriate.

“We pay for this library, it's our library. We would like our library to represent our parish, our values,” he said. (If you notice, Mr. Gunter seemed to forget that the "we"

reading the passage. “It's sexually explicit and it needs to be moved.” (Mr. Cowell read the passages as if he was preaching from the pulpit about fire and brimstone and to me, had showed a perversed pleasure in the passages he was reading.)

Brian Gunter, parish resident and pastor, said that

like them, helped them at that age.)

Trey Cowell, a local pastor, led the charge to move the books, reading a graphic passage detailing sexual acts from “Me and Earl and the Dying Girl” to the room. 

“It's a shame that people had to fight to get these books on the agenda,” Cowell said after

Earl and the Dying Girl” and “The Perks of Being a Wallflower” from the young adult section to the adult section. Both were proposed by board member Abby Crosby for having sexually explicit material (even though tax paying residents who opposed to the movement stated how these books and others

nominated for president. Both received a 4-4 vote, (to me, Mr. Davis lacks the knowledge, empathy, or understanding of the entire community and is more passionate about ostracizing the rest of community, especially LGBTQIA community, than being welcoming.)

The board approved moving books “Me and

Alliance has been 100% correct. No need to ban books when you can ban (shut down) the whole library,” wrote Francine Smith, a recently removed board member, on social media.

Another, even more polarizing vote was for the election of board of control officers. Larry Davis and Labat were both

residents including people of color, people of other religions and people from the LGBTQIA community.)

Some critics of the new board, like the Livingston Parish Library Alliance community group, said the stalemate is part of a larger effort to disrupt the libraries.

“It appears that the