Officials in a small county in Texas are considering closing the public library system after a judge ordered books recently banned by the officials be returned to the shelves.

The Daily Trib reports commissioners in Llano County will discuss the library system’s future in a meeting on Thursday. The move comes after a judge ruled on March 30 that 12 titles, all children’s books, banned by the commissioners could again be made available at the county’s three libraries.

Many of the books were about race and LGTBQ issues, CNN reports, including “Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents” by Isabel Wilkerson, “They Called Themselves the K.K.K.: The Birth of an American Terrorist Group” by Susan Campbell Bartoletti and “Being Jazz: My Life as a (Transgender) Teen” by Jazz Jennings.

“It appears that the defendants would rather shut down the Library System entirely — depriving thousands of Llano county residents of access to books, learning resources, and meeting space — than make the banned books available to residents who want to read them,” Ellen Leonida, the lawyer for plaintiffs, tells CNN.

CNN reports seven residents sued the county in April 2022 after the books were banned. The lawsuit accuses the county’s commissioners of getting rid of members of the library board and replacing them with a new panel that reviewed the library system’s materials, leading to the ban of some children’s books.

The county commissioners and the new library board have appealed the judge’s decision.