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Louise Robbins on impacts of book ban clashes on communities

By Zac Schultz | Here & Now

September 8, 2023

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UW-Madison library and information studies professor emeritus Louise Robbins considers the context and consequences of a push to remove hundreds of LGBTQ-related materials from an Iron River library.

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