Have you read The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn? Or, did you love Alice Walker's The Color Purple? How about Phillip Pullman's The Golden Compass? These are all titles that have been challenged in towns across the nation in 2007."Banned Books Week (BBW) celebrates the freedom to choose or the freedom to express one’s opinion even if that opinion might be considered unorthodox or unpopular..."
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A public library using public funds to promote totally false and misleading information is disgraceful and should be a cause for concern by its citizens. The public does not expect its institutions to mislead them, particularly where absolutely no balance is provided whatsoever.
Banned Books Week is "shameless propaganda ... now institutionalized with a week of its own." Seemingly talking about this blog post, "Those who are spreading hysteria about book banning and censorship know that they are in a war, but too many of those who thoughtlessly repeat their rhetoric do not."
Go to this link to see who said this and more on the topic: http://preview.tinyurl.com/sowell
Even a former ALA Councilor said:
"It also highlights the thing we know about Banned Books Week that we don't talk about much--the bulk of these books are challenged by parents for being age-inappropriate for children. While I think this is still a formidable thing for librarians to deal with, it's totally different from people trying to block a book from being sold at all."
It is sad to see a public institution present such a one-sided view of an issue. Especially when that one side is "shameless propaganda," and the US Supreme Court said in a case the ALA lost big, US v. ALA:
"The interest in protecting young library users from material inappropriate for minors is legitimate, and even compelling, as all Members of the Court appear to agree."
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