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In the article the author shares how a Facebook public post by one public library patron about the picture book "Making a Baby," by Rachel Greener and illustrated by Clare Owen led to community uproar in Henrietta, New York. Topics include complaints about the level of information contained in the book, Facebook posts against biracial and same-sex couples and the support received by the public library from local politicians and town supervisor.

This article introduces librarian Philip Charles Crawford who discusses the state of library users and the importance of catering to those users. Teenagers are the focus of this article which breaks them down into those who do and do not use the library. State-of-the-art library technology is discussed and the importance of offering various categories of literature in order to entice teenagers to read.

This article highlights the International Children's Digital Library (ICDL), a joint project of the Human-Computer Interaction Laboratory at the University of Maryland and the Internet Archive in San Francisco, California. The author describes her son's experience reading an online book and reports on the involvement with ICDL among children ages six to eleven.

An editorial related to the semantics of review writing is presented. The author discusses determining the audience for particular children's books. The gap between children's book reviewers and readers of children's literature is considered. The objective nature of determining a book's worth is discussed. The process of book selection is also discussed.