As a public librarian whose responsibility covers buying all adult fiction and non-fiction books for the library, I can tell you these have been the hardest years of my career. I do my level best to keep things ideologically neutral as possible and keep my leftist bias out of it -- and I do think many of my colleagues have a left leaning bias. For example, in my large regional consortium, our library is the only one that has Richard Reeves' new book, "Of Boys and Men: Why the modern male is struggling, why it matters, and what to do about it." There is currently 10 holds in the system for the one copy -- it's insane that I am the only library who has it in the system -- it's an important book that makes cogent arguments. I bought Pence's new book. I bought Tom Cotton's new book. I bought the new bio on Limbaugh that borders on hagiography. I buy more books on religion, prayer, Christianity etc. than any other library in our consortium.

The only thing I will not buy, no matter how many public requests for it I get, are books that are devoid of facts. I will not buy books that "prove" the 2020 election was stolen, any more than I would buy books that "prove" the Earth is flat.