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Three speakers address the book challenge at the Library Advisory Board; decision placed on a later agenda
In the board's public forum one speaker said no one has the right to tell others what they can read, a second asked the board to call an emergency meeting on the request, and the resident who filed it said her original request had been to keep sexually explicit material in a separate room for readers 18 and older and to make public who selects such books. The Director clarified that library staff, not board members, served on the review committee. The request was listed as an item for a future agenda.[1]
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Speakers at the Library Advisory Board public forum (members of the public, not named): The resident who filed the request told the board that she had "originally asked for them to lock any pornographic material up in a separate room marked 18 and above" and had "also asked for transparency" about who brings such books in. The Director "interjected at this point to clarify that APL staff served on the Review Committee that initially assessed the books, not members of the Library Advisory Board." Another speaker said, "I don't have the right to tell somebody else what they can read, and they don't have the right to tell me what I can read." [1]
