[Libs-Or] OSF Economic Heavy Objects to Banned Books Display

Maureen Battistella mbattistellaor at gmail.com
Thu Aug 4 21:31:06 PDT 2016


The Oregon Shakespeare Festival director Cynthia Rider has criticized a
local used bookstore for their long standing display of banned books and
instructed the staff and actors to boycott the bookstore.  Even their board
member, an African American diversity educator disagrees. Here's the stories
in the Ashland Daily Tidings. 
This is the 2014 article on the display
http://www.dailytidings.com/article/20140818/News/140819608
This is the 2016 article on OSF's objections
http://www.dailytidings.com/article/20160804/NEWS/160809906

How would librarians respond?

Maureen.
Maureen Flanagan Battistella
Ashland, Oregon.




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