News Summary

• Patrons hoping to ban books from the St. Charles City-County Library will need to persuade a supermajority of the library’s trustees under new rules.
• The new policy, which begins Aug. 1, allows library patrons who have requested that a specific title be removed from the shelves to appeal to the library board if a committee of library personnel opt to retain the item.
• Six of the nine library trustees would have to agree to ban a book after reviewing all information regarding the appeal and reading the book themselves.