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Online enhancements will take the guesswork out of searches for patrons of the Jackson-George Regional Library System.
I reserve the majority of the books I get on-line and then drop by to pick them up, so this is welcome news to me. For those who haven't visited the Jackson George Regional Library System online click here to do so.
- 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...
- Book Returns To Circulation
The Library Board for the Jackson-George Regional Library System voted 3 to 1 Tuesday night to make a best-selling book by comedian Jim Norton available to library patrons again upon request. The book has been out of circulation since an Ocean Springs...
- 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...
- I Couldn't Have Said It Better Myself
Letter to the Editor in today's Sun Herald. Keepers of standards, or cultural bullies? I am writing about the book-banning issue that recently occurred in the Jackson-George Regional Library system, and which was reported in the Sun Herald. A best-selling...
- Best-seller Called Obscene
It looks like censorship is alive and well in South Mississippi thanks to the complaints of an unnamed Ocean Springs patron a best seller has been removed from the Jackson George Regional Library shelves. The complaint was that the work, a collection...
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Online enhancements will take the guesswork out of searches for patrons of the Jackson-George Regional Library System.
I reserve the majority of the books I get on-line and then drop by to pick them up, so this is welcome news to me. For those who haven't visited the Jackson George Regional Library System online click here to do so.
- 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...
- Book Returns To Circulation
The Library Board for the Jackson-George Regional Library System voted 3 to 1 Tuesday night to make a best-selling book by comedian Jim Norton available to library patrons again upon request. The book has been out of circulation since an Ocean Springs...
- 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...
- I Couldn't Have Said It Better Myself
Letter to the Editor in today's Sun Herald. Keepers of standards, or cultural bullies? I am writing about the book-banning issue that recently occurred in the Jackson-George Regional Library system, and which was reported in the Sun Herald. A best-selling...
- Best-seller Called Obscene
It looks like censorship is alive and well in South Mississippi thanks to the complaints of an unnamed Ocean Springs patron a best seller has been removed from the Jackson George Regional Library shelves. The complaint was that the work, a collection...