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Monday, March 12, 2007
Library activists to go national
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
A Suwanee mom with a reputation for driving county library board members to distraction has been tapped to head a conservative national advocacy group called Family Friendly Libraries.
Last week, the organization announced that Denise Varenhorst has been named president of FFL.
The group also named Judy Craft, a conservative political activist from Norcross, to be the organization’s vice president. Craft, a political activist, co-founded a local chapter of FFL.
The organization, founded in 1992, has dedicated much of its efforts to keeping Internet pornography out of local libraries.
Varenhorst, some may recall, is the Suwanee mom whose complaints about rude treatment by the library system’s former director led to the resignation of the then-library board chairman and prompted an apology from the former director.
When the library system announced plans to sell its DVD collection, Varenhorst, who argued that the DVDs were vital to home-schoolers, spearheaded a campaign to keep the collection on the shelves.
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