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My two cents worth.

Any school or public library should have a selection policy. The that
selection policy does NOT solely belong to the librarian. It is a policy
approved by the board/administration or whomever has the responsibility over
the library. Any selection policy will have a section for challenged
materials.

Once you have the policy, you are duty bound to adhere to it. I would fight
the battle for any book being challenged that it should go through the
correct procedure. But once that procedure has run its course, I am also
duty bound to abide by the decision. If the decision is to take the book off
the shelves, then I would do that, perhaps under protest, but still I would
have to do it.

The fight I would also make, or not take the job at all, is that there would
be a well thought out selection policy to include policy on challenged
books.

Meanwhile, I probably will not buy "The Higher Power of Lucky". First of
all, I have NO budget for new books this year. Secondly, as a high school
and from what I have read about the book it isn't one that my students need
or would want to read. But I have books in my library with worse words than
scrotum. I also do not buy a book just because it won an award.

Lastly, I think that it was highly irresponsible and unethical for people to
use LM_NET postings to heat things up. I wonder if it wasn't a ploy to get
book sales up. I would like to see (but do not expect to see) an apology to
the LM_NET community for disregarding copyright.

My two cents worth, hope they were worth at least that much.

Deborah Stafford
Gen. H.H. Arnold High School
Wiesbaden, Germany
deborah.stafford@t-online.de

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