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And we hope that in the future the reticent Mr. Hamlett will not be so reluctant to discuss library matters with the Sun Herald.
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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 circulated at public expense and the trustees will take up the complaint at a meeting that begins at 5 o'clock tonight at the main library in Pascagoula.
We trust that the library trustees will do right tonight by both the author and all of their patrons.
And we hope that in the future the reticent Mr. Hamlett will not be so reluctant to discuss library matters with the Sun Herald.
While the book in question isn't one I would choose to read, it was on the New York Times Best Seller List. The library has limited funds to buy books and this book has already been purchased, taking it out of circulation to appease the Ocean Springs patron serves no one. Let those patrons who choose to read it, read it, other patrons always have the option of NOT checking it out.
The bright side: Bans mean that books matter
The bright side: Bans mean that books matter
- 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...
- 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....
- 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...