The Town of Westfield Green Team and the Westfield Memorial Library are pleased to announce the list of fall 2023 seeds available in the Westfield Native Seed Library. To celebrate the launch of the fall seeds, the library and Green Team will be hosting Elaine Silverman, Vice President of the Native Plant Society of New […]
Westfield Memorial Library Declared Book Sanctuary
At their regular meeting on September 27, the Westfield Memorial Library Board of Trustees passed a resolution adopting The Freedom to Read Statement and declaring the library a book sanctuary. This resolution came to the Board of Trustees in response to an alarming increase in the number of attempted book bans across the country, and […]
The Freedom to Read Statement
The freedom to read is essential to our democracy. It is continuously under attack. Private groups and public authorities in various parts of the country are working to remove or limit access to reading materials, to censor content in schools, to label “controversial” views, to distribute lists of “objectionable” books or authors, and to purge […]