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Residents press assembly over library purchases and book‑challenge process
Summary
Multiple residents, including library board members and community activists, urged the borough assembly to scrutinize recent library book purchases and the library board's procedures during audience participation at the Sept. 16 meeting.
Several residents used the assembly’s public comment period on Sept. 16 to urge the borough and local library boards to review recent book purchases and the board’s internal procedures.
Speakers from multiple communities described concerns about titles on recently approved purchase lists for branch libraries. Jackie Go Forth, a resident who attended the Big Lake library board meeting, said she planned to file formal challenges and criticized the board’s process and the conduct of staff during that meeting. Go Forth said the board’s director “failed to uphold…
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