It complained that Amoabeng, who was hired by the library in 1986 and became director in 1993, had no plans to improve the system and showed no leadership skills. The Record said Amoabeng's supporters, who credited him with automating the system, noted that his removal was backed by Mayor Marty Barnes, whom they accused of injecting politics into the debate over the library's future. American Family Association Takes Aim at Third Michigan Library American Family Association of Michigan President Gary Glenn has sent a letter to trustees of the Baldwin Public Library in Birmingham, recommending that they order library workers to begin using Internet filters there. The letter, written a few days after Holland voters defeated a filter initiative Glenn had supported and Hudsonville officials reinstated Internet service they had discontinued to avoid presenting voters with a similar ballot measure, seems triggered by a February 22 Oakland Press story that BPL staff had called police after witnessing a male patron viewing sexually explicit photos of young boys at an Internet workstation. If the board denies his request, he has vowed to get a measure similar to Holland's placed on the November ballot.
Sophisticated patrons come here and the computers are used properly.
Georgia man has accused the Pine Mountain Regional Library System in Manchester of violating his rights to freedom of speech and religion because it prohibited him from displaying small Bibles in the library's free literature section. Library director Charles Gee said Flournoy's request was turned down last year because of a 1997 policy prohibiting public display of religious information. When Flournoy appealed, the library board upheld the director's ruling. The action came two weeks after county commissioners unseated four incumbent library trustees over their opposition to the installation of filters despite widespread media coverage claiming that male patrons frequented sexually explicit Web sites and chat rooms at the library. In December, presidential candidate John McCain blasted GCL officials for offering unfiltered service.