Animals
- Books ~ Photo Hunt
Scylla is sleeping on the BOOK shelf. We have lots of BOOKS on the self under her. Charybdis is sleeping on the BOOK bags, which are laying on a stack of BOOKS. Mommy uses the BOOK bags to return BOOKS to the library. PhotoHunt ...
- The Public Library's Role Is To Serve The Entire Community
Karpen said that removing a book from the public library has been considered constitutionally suspect. "Many courts have noted that the public library's role is to serve the entire community," she said, "not to reflect or cater to any specific viewpoint....
- No Book Should Be Expected To Please Every Reader
The trustees have been asked by the library system's director, Michael Hamlett, to decide the fate of "Happy Endings: The Tales of a Meaty-Breasted Zilch" by comedian Jim Norton. A library patron in Ocean Springs objects to Norton's book being...
- Jackson- George Regional Library System Pulls Book For Review
Michael Hamlett, director of the Jackson-George Regional Library System, plans to meet with one member of the Library Board before deciding the fate of a best-selling book by comedian Jim Norton, pulled from the shelves of the system's branches last...
- Educational News
In New Jersey we have Hell in the Public School Classroom. Sixteen-year-old junior Matthew LaClair says he was shocked when history teacher David Paszkiewicz, who is also a Baptist preacher in town, spent the first week lecturing students more about Heaven...
Animals
JoAn Karkos & Lysa Harding steal books to keep people from reading them
JoAn Karkos said she was "horrified" by the content of an acclaimed sex education book, "It's Perfectly Normal: Changing Bodies, Growing Up, Sex and Sexual Health." She has checked out copies from two libraries and refuses to give them back.
Take this woman's library card away ASAP.
The book topped the American Library Association's list of the most frequently challenged books of 2005, where it was cited for homosexuality, nudity, sex education, abortion, its religious viewpoint and being unsuited for its intended age group
And this lovely Grandma is encouraging her granddaughters theft
Fifteen-year-old Lysa Harding picked a book (“Sandpiper” by Ellen Wittlinger) at random from Brookwood High’s library for a book report last week. Now, she doesn’t want to return it. Harding and her grandmother, Pam Pennington, say the book is too sexually explicit and shouldn’t be on school library bookshelves. The school library won’t allow her to check out another book until she returns this one, and that’s not going to happen, they said.
Not only should she not be allowed to check out another book until she returns the book she stole, she should receive an F for the class. She should also learn to select books that won't offend her. I am sure from just reading the review she would have some idea about the nature of the book. BTW, I was able to read the first chapter online and it's not graphic at all.
HT: Cocking a Snook!
- Books ~ Photo Hunt
Scylla is sleeping on the BOOK shelf. We have lots of BOOKS on the self under her. Charybdis is sleeping on the BOOK bags, which are laying on a stack of BOOKS. Mommy uses the BOOK bags to return BOOKS to the library. PhotoHunt ...
- The Public Library's Role Is To Serve The Entire Community
Karpen said that removing a book from the public library has been considered constitutionally suspect. "Many courts have noted that the public library's role is to serve the entire community," she said, "not to reflect or cater to any specific viewpoint....
- No Book Should Be Expected To Please Every Reader
The trustees have been asked by the library system's director, Michael Hamlett, to decide the fate of "Happy Endings: The Tales of a Meaty-Breasted Zilch" by comedian Jim Norton. A library patron in Ocean Springs objects to Norton's book being...
- Jackson- George Regional Library System Pulls Book For Review
Michael Hamlett, director of the Jackson-George Regional Library System, plans to meet with one member of the Library Board before deciding the fate of a best-selling book by comedian Jim Norton, pulled from the shelves of the system's branches last...
- Educational News
In New Jersey we have Hell in the Public School Classroom. Sixteen-year-old junior Matthew LaClair says he was shocked when history teacher David Paszkiewicz, who is also a Baptist preacher in town, spent the first week lecturing students more about Heaven...