ImagineIF Board votes to remove all references to American Library Association

The ImagineIF Board of Trustees voted Thursday to clarify its position of no longer being associated with the American Library Association.

The vote followed a Daily Inter Lake article published earlier this month looking into the board’s decision to drop Banned Books Week celebrations. Board Chair David Ingram previously said the move was based on a vote taken years ago to strip all references to the national group, which helps organize Banned Books Week, in the county library system. 

But library employees could find no evidence of that vote during a subsequent review of records.