This WVTF RadioIQ article highlights ULC's Director of Civic Health and Economic Opportunity Shamichael Hallman and his book, Meet Me at the Library:

“Libraries have traditionally been a place that have been very trusted,” said Shamichael Hallman, director of Civic Health and Economic Opportunity at the Urban Libraries Council. “And I do start to wonder what happens to that trust as some of this rhetoric is coming about, which is one of the reasons I wanted to write this book.”

Hallman’s book is called “Meet Me at the Library: A Place to Foster Social Connection and Promote Democracy.” His writing inspired Andrea Hamre to teach a course for Virginia Tech’s Lifelong Learning Institute, exploring, among other things, how history is repeating itself with book bans.

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