"Banned Book Week" at Library usually last week Sept

[Dale_M]

What I can’t understand is why public libraries have ‘Young Adult’ sections - then define YA as being ages **ELEVEN **and up…

Off-hand, and this is just a guess, is that it has to do with puberty. Girls as young as eleven reach this stage of life, and boys will soon after. In the town I grew up in by age eleven, children were encouraged to apply for an adult card in the public library.

 

[Joe_Kelley]

. . .
Libraries have finite budgets and have to make a choice as to what books to buy. I still remember hearing the lecture about the difference between censorship and selection in library classes. I think I can sum it up in this sentence: I am a professional and I decide what to buy.

In government contracting this was known as The Golden Rule - He who has the Gold makes the Rules.

 

[Goth_Catholic]

I’m reading the Scarlett Letter right now. shrugs And what does the Lorax have to do with anything? I read that book several times as I kid:shrug:

 

[gam197]

Just wanted to add that two of libraries here have “Banned Book Week” and the largest area paper did almost 3/4 page on it. What struck me in the news article was that the librarian at my library talked about how terrible it was to ban a book.

Ironically I went to that library a year ago and asked if I could donate a brand new book about “women who have had abortions and felt grief”. I was denied and told they couldn’t accept it. Aren’t they in a sense banning books?

 

[Joe_Kelley]

Just wanted to add that two of libraries here have “Banned Book Week” and the largest area paper did almost 3/4 page on it. What struck me in the news article was that the librarian at my library talked about how terrible it was to ban a book.

Ironically I went to that library a year ago and asked if I could donate a brand new book about “women who have had abortions and felt grief”. I was denied and told they couldn’t accept it. Aren’t they in a sense banning books?

No. when a book is rejected because of an immoral message it is censorship. When it is rejected because of a moral message it is expert discretion.

 

[Belle777]

I’ve heard of people trying to ban books like ‘The Giver’ and ‘The Diary of Anne Frank’ simply because they’re depressing.

 

[Pier]

Just wanted to add that two of libraries here have “Banned Book Week” and the largest area paper did almost 3/4 page on it. What struck me in the news article was that the librarian at my library talked about how terrible it was to ban a book.

Ironically I went to that library a year ago and asked if I could donate a brand new book about “women who have had abortions and felt grief”. I was denied and told they couldn’t accept it. Aren’t they in a sense banning books?

Yes…

they ’couldn’t’ accept it? Or didn’t want to…

I don’t know if they have a suggestion box, or if you can go to a librarian & request the book - they might actually end up ordering it…

Then there’s always a more public complaint, along the lines of writing a letter that begins, ‘Dear Editor’ & publicly pointing out the hypocrisy of the hierarchy at your local public library.

 

[coleraine]

i dont really agree with that. i dont think i books should be banned unless it goes against what everyone generally believes. we may have our own preferences, but we have to exept that people will be themselves and we cant stop them. how the heck did Harry Potter get banned? thats a load.

 

[Dale_M]

ihow the heck did Harry Potter get banned? thats a load.

Harry Potter is an evil attempt to indoctrinate children in witchcraft and the Wicca religion.
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[Isa_Almisry]

Just wanted to add that two of libraries here have “Banned Book Week” and the largest area paper did almost 3/4 page on it. What struck me in the news article was that the librarian at my library talked about how terrible it was to ban a book.

Ironically I went to that library a year ago and asked if I could donate a brand new book about “women who have had abortions and felt grief”. I was denied and told they couldn’t accept it. Aren’t they in a sense banning books?

yes they are, but don’t expect consistency from the left.

I’ve always wondered about having a display on books that should have been banned: Mein Kampf, Capital (Marx’s magnus opus: it got past the censors in Russia because they couldn’t understand it), Protocols of the elders of Zion, etc.

 

[Larry1700]

yes they are, but don’t expect consistency from the left.

I’ve always wondered about having a display on books that should have been banned: Mein Kampf, Capital (Marx’s magnus opus: it got past the censors in Russia because they couldn’t understand it), Protocols of the elders of Zion, etc.

Good point!

 

[MariaAntonietta]

Why has the Harry Potter book been banned? It is absolutley brilliant. What a story that intrigues children and adults into a mystical world of games, adventure and laughter. Lift the mood and the banning I say.

 

[Amolibri]

Why has the Harry Potter book been banned? It is absolutley brilliant. What a story that intrigues children and adults into a mystical world of games, adventure and laughter. Lift the mood and the banning I say.

This can be said for many of the banned [challenged] books…hysteria will cause much of the controversy…and when people think their own version of “what is right and proper” fits everyone.
Freedom is not easy. Adults being “shielded” from “unacceptable” material is how censorship takes hold. Local control and community standards are a start…but when we start to limit our freedoms, and succumb to ‘authority’ in what we can read or buy, we begin the descent to the *slippery slope *.
As another poster has said, if you don’t like what your library offers, GET INVOLVED. Join your “Friends” organization. It’s YOUR tax money that funds the public library!!!

 

[MariaAntonietta]

My reply is, the consequence of HP Books are not of dark magic spells. You must read these adventure books and imagine while you are reading the whole story page by page. You will came into a new existences that only brings goodness.