West Bend Library Folks to Hold Panel “Discussion” at ALA Conference

This is too funny.

The fight over which books should be allowed in the young adult category of the West Bend library will be the subject of a panel discussion during the nation’s largest gathering of librarians this month in Chicago.

   West Bend Community Memorial Library Director Michael Tyree, Young Adult Librarian Kristin Pekoll, Library Board Chairman Barbara Deters, former library Board trustee Mary Reilly-Kliss and community organizer Maria Hanrahan, who started West Bend Parents for Free Speech, will conduct a panel discussion about the West Bend book controversy Monday, July 13, during the seven-day American Library Association (ALA) annual conference.

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Hanrahan said she will participate on the panel as “someone who is involved in the situation from a library patron’s perspective.”

In other words, there was a big kerfuffle over some library books and all of the people who agree with each other will sit around and talk about it.  Yeah, that should be a balanced discussion of the issue

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