These two chapters cover something that I deal with nearly every day at school. As the purchaser of library books, I have to constantly remind myself 'equal access for all patrons', which basically means that librarians need to provide books on a vast variety of topics from a wide variety of points of view. This of course, means all of my books have the potential to step on a lot of toes. I don't know how many times a parent has asked me not to let their child check out a book on (choose a banned subject to go here) or not read to a class of children any books with animals as characters, etc. If I really followed all these requests, I would be left with no books to read to classes or check out to students.
Additionally, on the multicultural aspect, I've had parents complain about books on the middle east and Muslim cultures, and other parents complain about the lack of books on other cultures. Unfortunately, no one can please everyone all the time.
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