I’m back from Chicago, speaking at the annual conference of the ALA—American Library Association. 20,000 librarians under one roof—totally inspiring. In addition to their deeper-funded and better–staffed cousins from the big cities, they came from towns I’d never heard of, in states I’d never been in: like Clarksdale, Mississippi; Rock Springs, Wyoming; and Keene, New Hampshire. As disparate as they were, they all had this in common: * They support reading; * They support access to information; * They’re under pressure from dozens of directions to restrict that access; * They’re concerned about the sexual themes, words, and pictures in…