Library Board Battles County Over Right To Buy R-Rated Films. The culture wars have returned to Loudoun County’s public library system — or, more precisely, to the tidy rows of DVDs at its seven branches.
There, between episodes of “Sesame Street” and documentaries about Julia Child and the Civil War, patrons can find a collection of more popular titles — after they’re checked in, that is. Most days, the DVD shelves are picked clean, with “Some Like It Hot” starring Marilyn Monroe and the BBC’s “Mystery” series more likely to be available than “Crash” or “The Passion of the Christ.”
The library system’s 440 R-rated movies are especially popular. They are also provoking a public battle between the county’s Board of Supervisors and the library board of trustees. The supervisors recently voted 8 to 1 to ask the trustees to stop spending county dollars on adult-oriented movies with an R rating. This month, the trustees say they plan to respectfully decline the request.
Supervisors appoint the trustees and approve the library system’s annual budget of about $10.5 million. But library boards in Virginia are otherwise independent. By state code, cities and counties may control the amount of money their public libraries have to spend but not how they spend it.
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