The annual conference offers librarians ideas for how to improve their programming, collections and operations. They were characterized as threats to the library’s mission of helping youth and others question and/or undermine long-established cultural, religious and moral values.Īs the largest and most influential library association in the state, the Alaska Library Association’s membership includes more than 500 community and school libraries throughout Alaska. Permeated throughout the conference was the notion that librarians are waging an ideological battle against conservative, religious and traditionally minded families. Community and school librarians gathered from across the state to attend workshops, a number of which aimed at equipping them to overcome parents who make “a big stink” about these issues, as one attendee put it.Īdditionally, the three-day gathering also taught librarians how to “decolonize” their book collections, while improving access gender and queer-based history books. Drag queens, gender-fluidity, sex-themed youth books and difficulties with conservative parents were prominent topics at the annual Alaska Library Association’s conference late last month in Fairbanks.
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