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Library annual report highlights programs; public speaker calls staff performance ‘harassment’ over wearable art show
Summary
At the March 10 Ketchikan Gateway Borough Assembly meeting, public commenter Deborah Simon criticized library staff and the inclusion of a wearable art performance in the library's 2024 annual report. Library Director Pat Tully presented the report and answered questions about programs, collections and increased use by unhoused patrons.
Deborah Simon told the Ketchikan Gateway Borough Assembly on March 10 that she objected to material she said was marketed to minors and to library staff's public actions, calling some responses to her use of the library's request-for-reconsideration policy "harassment." Simon said she spent more than three years on the Ketchikan Public Library advisory board and that the library's 2024 annual report included references to a wearable art performance she found objectionable.
The allegation prompted discussion and questions from assembly members during the meeting's public-comment period and later during the library director's presentation. Pat Tully, director of the Ketchikan Public Library, summarized highlights from the library's 2024 annual report and described staff and program activity for the year.
Tully said the library offered 379…
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