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The book has been out of circulation since an Ocean Springs patron complained in August.
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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 patron complained in August.
They do plan to change the way they buy books.
"In the past it has been our policy to automatically buy things off the New York Times Best Seller List. We have reviewed that and we have changed that procedure and will no longer automatically buy things until we have a closer look at them."
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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...
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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...
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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....
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