[LM_NET] Gen: Librarian censorship sorta re lucky

[Darlene Yasick <lib027yas@SBCGLOBAL.NET>]

It was interesting that while we were having this Lucky discussion our local TV 
station was featuring a story about an area public library with a kind of opposite 
problem. I'll try and type this so it will get past filters. Seem a 14 yr had gone 
to the library and brought home a movie that was rated on the box not for under 18 
and a book call "The Big Book of P##n"( title might be a little different as my 
memory is gettin older but the biggest word on the title was the last and the book 
was thick) The parent was highly upset  a. that his 14 yr old could check this out 
and b. that in the case of the book his tax money was being spent on this. The 
station dealt mostly with the first issue and reported that the libraries in the 
are have no restrictions on who can check out what regardless of age. They 
recommended that parent accompany their kids to the library if they wanted to 
regulate their checkouts. ( like that's going to happen with a teenager!) I don't 
want to start
 another big thread about this but I thought it was interesting to see another side 
of this issue.  Darlene
   
  PS MY email is set to respond to sender only. I have to go up and change it to 
post to the list. This is an easy way to make sure that you are sending to everyone 
when you meant to reply to a single persons target. 
   


Darlene Yasick
Media Specialist
Hopkins (MI) High School
lib027yas@global.net

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