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Vol. 38, No. 1
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January 4, 2023
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Riverside Library pushes back on request to ban book Two residents want nonbinary coming-of-age memoir removed from shelves
By BOB UPHUES Editor
The Riverside Public Library Board of Trustees will place a request from two local residents to remove a book from their collection on its Jan. 10 agenda following a discussion in December of staff ’s decision to keep the book available to the public. At the library board’s Dec. 13 meeting, trustees expressed support for the decision made by a committee of Library Director Janice Foley, Information Services Manager Diane Silva and Children and Youth Services Manager Nora Durbin to keep the 2019 book “Gender Queer: A Memoir” by Maia Kobabe in circulation. That decision included moving the book to the library’s adult collection. See BOOK BAN on page 9
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