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Please join us for light refreshments before the program beginning at 5:30PM.

The League of Women Voters of Milwaukee County and the Whitefish Bay Public Library will host Freedom to Read: How Librarians Fight Back Against Book Challenges and How the Law Protects Them. This Community Conversation will take place on October 5, 2023, at 6:00 p.m. at the Whitefish Bay Public Library. 

The program will feature Tomas Lipinski, Ph.D. and J.D., professor at the UWM School of Information Studies and Nyama Reed, Whitefish Bay Public Library Director and past-president of the Wisconsin Library Association. Ms. Reed's presentation will focus on the background of the Freedom to Read movement, plus historical and current trends in book challenges. Dr. Lipinski's presentation will cover the legal foundations that support library work, including a review of the extant case law involving public school and public library book challenges and collections that demonstrate support for library decision-making in building collections.