[LM_NET] TAR: Censorship /Selection Policy Question

[Alan Karbel <aakarbel@YAHOO.COM>]

Hello LM_NETTERS,

I'm a full time school librarian and currently working
on finishing my permanent LMS certification at the
University of Wisconsin - Milwaukee. One of my
assignments has to do with an unusual aspect of
censorship. The premise is that the library has just
successfully handled a challenge and the book remains
in the collection. Now the people who were challenging
the item come back and challenge the selection policy
and the selection tools used. They argue that things
like Booklist, School Library Journal, etc. are biased
and they want other sources for reviews, such as
www.pabbis.org, used as well.

It's a very interesting question, but after hours of
searching journal databases, the Internet and
everything else I can think of, I've come up with very
little information regarding bias in review sources or
“conservative” websites (or any other tools) that look
at book selection in a more positive light than PABBIS
does.

Does anyone have any ideas or information about this
issue?

Thanks in advance,

Alan Karbel, LMS
Atwater & Lake Bluff Elementary Schools
Shorewood, WI




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