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Controversy continues at the Arlington library. The head of the city’s library advisory board is out. Cat Serna-Horn was removed from her role Tuesday night following an apparent Facebook post. Lili Zheng reports from arlington.

Arlington’s library advisory board chair was removed from the position this week following backlash over her social media post, criticizing council members during the height of a debate over LGBTQ displays.

The passed measure would ban library books that mention “gender fluidity.”

Two controversial policies are on the agenda in Keller ISD. The school board will consider arming teachers in the classroom and vote to ban any books that have LGBTQ content.

The Keller ISD Board Trustees is set to vote on authorizing teachers to carry guns in the classroom, and banning library books that mention “gender fluidity.”

The Keller Independent School District Board Trustees is set to vote on authorizing teachers and employees to carry guns in the classroom, and banning library books that mention “gender fluidity.”

Two women were the top vote-getters in the process to name a new Fort Worth Public Library in the far southwest part of the city.

Schools are reopening across North Texas, and that means controversial library books are in focus. In the Keller ISD, a day before the district opened for the new year, librarians were told to to remove 41 titles from their shelves.

The Plano Public Library, like many across North Texas, is using the summer to keep kids engaged in reading. Oftentimes, that’s not the easiest task for parents, but the library is working to change that.

A Chicago-area librarian’s post about a heartbreaking encounter he experienced is going viral on Twitter.

Uvalde’s Progresso Library just blocks from Robb Elementary has been working to serve a grieving community and become a place to escape and heal after the school shooting that left 19 children and two teachers dead.

A one-of-a-kind work of art at the Farmers Branch Library features a three-story mural painted on books.

School librarians are under intense pressure, from both Republican politicians who want to ban and criminalize certain books and also from parents who have filed an unprecedented number of complaints, asking to have books dealing with racism and LGBTQ issues pulled from shelves.

A children’s book checked out from the Boise, Idaho, public library in 1910 vanished for 111 years only to be returned anonymously, library officials said.

Banning books is the latest topic dividing parents in schools across the nation. New images some people find disturbing have been found in Keller Independent School District. NBC 5 education reporter Wayne Carter looks at the debate over books in school libraries.