National park signs on women and LGBTQ+ history are disappearing. Librarians are preserving the record

National park signs on women and LGBTQ+ history are disappearing. Librarians are preserving the record

Jenny McBurney, a librarian specializing in government publications, was in Washington, D.C., in June when she heard the news that the Department of Interior, the agency responsible for overseeing the national park system, had produced a spreadsheet listing dozens of sites where it had removed materials deemed disparaging to Americans or unrelated to the beauty and grandeur of our national parks.  She and other people who happened to be in town …