Westmoreland County school board member Glenn Trasker, 58, clarified at Tuesday’s meeting that the board is “absolutely not banning books,” but is instead moving 1,200 titles into a locked room behind the boiler in the basement of a closed elementary school in the next county. “Anyone can check them out,” said Trasker. “They just have to know who to ask, when to come, and bring two forms of ID and a notarized letter.” Trasker described the policy as “more of a vibe than a rule” and noted that students remained “fully free to read, in theory.” The room, accessible only via a hallway with no overhead lighting, contains “Beloved,” “Maus,” and one copy of “Charlotte’s Web,” which Trasker said was “in there by mistake, probably.”