“In Defense of Errant Ideas: How libraries protect pathways in ‘…The search for truth and meaning.’ ” with Allyson Malik
While thinking about what to say as our speaker on January 21, our speaker, Allyson Malik, looked over our Seven UU Principles. One, in particular, caught her eye — “A free and responsible search for truth and meaning.”
In fact, The title of her talk will be: “In Defense of Errant Ideas: How libraries protect pathways in
‘…The search for truth and meaning.’ ”
Allyson Evans Malik, director of the Oak Bluffs Library since 2016, has worked in libraries for sixteen years after a brief career as a lawyer on Long Island. Her respect for different perspectives on truth and meaning have been shaped by both careers as well as her childhood upbringing in the Middle East. After a lifetime of moving around from Virginia, Iowa, New York and back to Maryland, she finally moved to the Vineyard with her husband, Rizwan, nine years ago. Home at last in Oak Bluffs, they’re raising their seven-year-old, Owen, who despite having two librarian parents, dreams of being a mathematician.