i know the head of our library is here, michael lambert, and i'm sure i'm missing others, but i'm sure the mayor will catch up with me. once i once i complete my comments, but let me also say this. this event this month would not happen, but for tremendous community partners, and they are listed on the boards we have here, but we have many, many amazing community partners. i know we're going to acknowledge several of them for their decades of leadership. we have many amazing community sponsors. um but we only have one woman who has been at the heart of this event for the better part of 19 years since she was, i think eight years old. ah! this is an event that came about because the then head of national organization of chinese americans approach then mayor gavin newsom and said it is high time for san francisco to put ourselves on the map and acknowledging a p i heritage month and claudine cheng, you've been at the heart of this. you have worked so hard for almost 20 years of doing this. thank you so much on behalf of the city for everything you do, and without further ado claudine che

is that michael lambert with the san francisco public library? good morning, team, michael.morning. thanks for having me. thanks for coming . so first of all, i just want to get your thoughts on hearing about this growing list of banned books because i never imagined this would be the case several years ago. but but what? go see your mind has you've been watching this play out around the country? well, it's true. and first of all, happy national library week, and today is the right to read day. and today, the american library association revealed the 10 most challenged books of 2022 so last year, we saw a record number of book challenges across the country nearly double the year before. so library school libraries are under attack right now. did you imagine that? you ever see something like this? um you know any, you know, even growing up before we even got to the point where you are heading the library in san francisco. well there's always been some tension there because libraries that's one of the core tenants is intellectual freedom. we fight for the freedom to know. the

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