Re: [LM_NET] Houston Public Library Book Restricted

[Ruth Cox Clark <ruthellen1201@YAHOO.COM>]

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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Ruth E. Cox Clark, Ph.D.
Adjunct Faculty
University of Houston-Clear Lake
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