The US Senate Judiciary Committee held a hearing on book bans and the impact on libraries and librarians. Senator Dick Durbin chairs the committee, and he called Illinois Secretary of State Alexi Giannoulias to DC to testify.
He says a robust library is a place that welcomes perspectives and information that might not otherwise be known or understood.
A new state law holds state funding from libraries that ban or prevent books from being stocked on the shelves.
