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Residents and library leaders debate book challenges as Assembly hears dozens of public comments
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More than a dozen residents, library volunteers and board members told the Assembly on Tuesday that borough libraries are important community resources while others urged stricter controls on some titles. The Assembly did not vote on library policy at the meeting but took public testimony and remarks from multiple communities.
Dozens of residents and library volunteers took the podium Tuesday to praise valley libraries’ programs and services and to urge the Assembly to preserve local libraries as community resources — even as several speakers asked for stricter review or removal of specific titles.
Library advocates from Willow, Wasilla, Talkeetna and Big Lake described summer-reading programs, author events, bike giveaways and community meeting space. Jeanie Troshinsky, president of…
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