I have to add my 2 cents to this thread. After going home and pulling up the
Houston article at home, because of the school's filter. Thought maybe there was a
"bad" picture included with the article, I finally surmised that the word "porn"
was the culprit -- got to love them filters.
Any way after reading the article and the recent censorship problems the Kansas
City Metropolitan area is having with "The Giver" I decided to find out if the
local library had a copy of this offensive book. The local library doesn't, but it
is part of the Kansas City Public Library system, which has two copies, so before
another mayor or superintendent decides that this book is going to cause the fall
of the "Western World" I decided to request a copy.
Of course now I am on the FBI and Homeland Security's watch list as a double
subversive/terrorist -- Librarian and a reader of inappropriate materials!!!!! But
we all know that my library records are all protected by the constitution. :-)
I can hardly wait to see the expression on the local library clerk when I go to
check out my requested book.
One more thing -- I know we are not suppose to be political -- But the recent
thread about contacting Mrs. Bush and asking for help -- what exactly has she or
her husband done in the last four years to actually help library funding or
literacy other than pay it lip service.
Curtis L. Clark
Library Media Specialist
Harrisonville Middle School
601 South Highland
Harrisonville, MO 64701
816 380 7654
816 884 5733 -- fax
clarkc@harrisonville.k12.mo.us
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From: School Library Media & Network Communications on behalf of Ruth Cox Clark
Sent: Thu 1/27/2005 10:02 AM
To: LM_NET@LISTSERV.SYR.EDU
Subject: Re: [LM_NET] Houston Public Library Book Restricted
Thanks for sharing this information with us. It is bad
enough when it is a school principal, but what message
are we sending from Texas when Houston's Mayor becomes
a censor? After this article the waiting list for the
book will be even longer, even if it is in the closed
stacks. People who would not have been interested in
it before will now have to see it to see what all the
fuss is about.
Ruth
--- "Dr. Mary Ann Bell" <mbe11@EARTHLINK.NET> wrote:
> Go to today's Houston Chronicle at this site:
> http://www.chron.com/
> Scroll down about one third to the story titled
> "Mayor restricts viewing
> of ... star's ... book." How sad that the mayor of
> our large city would
> cincumvent the process in place. The phone number
> for making a complaint
> is 713-247-2200. His email address is
> mayor@cityofhouston.net. What a
> regrettable precident this sets from our city and
> state.--Mary Ann
> P.S. I am using ellipses in the article title
> because I discovered after
> sending the message to our state listserv that it is
> being widely
> blocked due to the two omitted words.
>
> --
> ***************************
> "Try curiosity!" Dorothy Parker
> ***************************
> Dr. Mary Ann Bell
> Assistant Professor
> School of Library Science
> Sam Houston State University
> Huntsville, TX
> mbe11@earthlink.net
> lis_mah@shsu.edu
>
>
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