In West Bend, WI, a Library Dispute Goes National
Challenge to sexually explicit YA books leads to removal of board members who may be restored at meeting May 18
-- Library Journal, 05/08/2009
From School Library Journal:
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The West Bend Community Memorial Public Library. |
The library board that’s supposed to determine the fate of a major book challenge at Wisconsin’s West Bend Community Memorial Public Library is having a hard time doing its job. That’s because the city’s Common Council just got rid of four board members for taking too long to resolve the issue—and who were likely to vote against moving sexually explicit YA books to the adult section.
But now the council says it may reconsider its hasty decision.
That’s just the latest development in an ongoing saga at the West Bend library, which started on February 21 when parents Jim and Ginny Maziarka sought to ban 58 GLBT young adult titles that they felt were obscene or pornographic.
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