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I’m relieved to see ALA weigh-in on the issue on this local censorship.  As Deborah Caldwell-Stone, the acting director of ALA’s Office for Intellectual Freedom, notes:

just as library board members must put aside their personal views in support of the library’s mission, “the Common Council has an obligation to distinguish between personal beliefs and the preservation of the public library’s duty to represent the diversity of people, opinions, and ideas found in West Bend, Wisconsin,” and urged reconsideration of the decision to deny reappointment to the trustees.

Read about it here:  Dismissal of Wisconsin Board Members Draws National Censure

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