On March 17, 2012, Attorney Kay Doyle will speak at the National Public Library Association’s Annual Convention in Philadelphia as part of a panel discussion entitled “Library Access as an Emerging Constitutional Right.” Increasingly, libraries are called upon to deal with disorderly patrons and other problematic library users, and in doing so encounter restrictions that are due to the role of the public library as the “temple” of the public’s right to receive information as protected under the First Amendment to the U.S. Constitution.
