After a letter to the editor arrived at the Llano News referencing the removal of 16 books from the high school library, the News reached out to the president and vice president of the school district’s board of trustees. The trustees forwarded the questions to Llano Independent School District Superintendent Mac Edwards, who said that the books were removed as part of librarians’ routine weeding process.
“The letter does not accurately describe the recent and periodic deselection of library materials,” said Edwards in an email to the News on Friday, Aug. 9. “LISD removed over 2,000, books through its ‘weeding out’ process. Over 800 of those titles came from (the) Llano High School Library. The LHS library collection contains over 13,000 books. Eight hundred titles were weeded, which amounts to about 6% of the total collection. The purpose being to maintain the currency of the collection and to make space for new titles. Most, if not all, of these books were removed for little or no circulation in the last five years.”
The LISD Board of Trustees did not have to vote on the matter.
