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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 month. (The Sun Herald)
The book in question is Happy Endings: The Tales of a Meaty-Breasted Zilch by Jim Norton.
While this isn't a book I would choose to read, I find the idea of books being removed from the libraries shelves because of a patrons complaint offensive. The last book removed from the Jackson-George Regional Library Systems shelves (that I know of) was America by Jon Stewart. It was only placed back on the shelves after numerous complaints from all over the nation.
Please support the right to read books, contact Rex Bridges-Public Relations for the Jackson George Regional Library System email [email protected] & phone (228)769-3130 and Michael Hamlett, director of the Jackson-George Regional Library System email [email protected]
phone (228)769-3227 and let them know that books belong on library shelves not pulled for review because a patron complains.
Fortunately, for more than 25 years, the American Library Association and the American Booksellers Foundation for Freedom of Expression, among others, have sponsored Banned Books Week to highlight the importance of the Freedom to Read. This year, Banned Books Week runs from September 29-Oct 6th. (Daily Kos Book Bannings and Burnings in America by Frederick Clarkson )
Also join me in supporting banned book week September 29th-Oct 6th by placing this poster on your blog.
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Animals
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 month. (The Sun Herald)
The book in question is Happy Endings: The Tales of a Meaty-Breasted Zilch by Jim Norton.
While this isn't a book I would choose to read, I find the idea of books being removed from the libraries shelves because of a patrons complaint offensive. The last book removed from the Jackson-George Regional Library Systems shelves (that I know of) was America by Jon Stewart. It was only placed back on the shelves after numerous complaints from all over the nation.
Please support the right to read books, contact Rex Bridges-Public Relations for the Jackson George Regional Library System email [email protected] & phone (228)769-3130 and Michael Hamlett, director of the Jackson-George Regional Library System email [email protected]
phone (228)769-3227 and let them know that books belong on library shelves not pulled for review because a patron complains.
Fortunately, for more than 25 years, the American Library Association and the American Booksellers Foundation for Freedom of Expression, among others, have sponsored Banned Books Week to highlight the importance of the Freedom to Read. This year, Banned Books Week runs from September 29-Oct 6th. (Daily Kos Book Bannings and Burnings in America by Frederick Clarkson )
Also join me in supporting banned book week September 29th-Oct 6th by placing this poster on your blog.
- Library News
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...
- 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...
- 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...