Wednesday, 18 November 2009 22:50
Should a library be able to tell children what they can and can not read? The issue is being highly debated in Jessamine County.
Two Jessamine county library employees were fired last month when they took The League of Extraordinary Gentleman: Black Dossier off hold so a 12 year old girl couldn’t check it out.
Many people support the women's decision and others say it’s censorship. The library heard from both sides Wednesday.
In front of a packed room Wednesday, the Jessamine County Library Board listened to people voice their opinion on whether or not they should be limiting what children are reading.
“If you only have things people agree with there is no room for development, change, consideration or debate," Jessamine County resident, Christine Powell, said.
"This material is graphic in content and it should be put in a part of the library where only adults can access it," former pastor, Kevin Hearn said.
The argument stems from last months firings of Sharon Cook and Beth Boisvert.
http://www.wtvq.com/news/1064-library-book-debate-continues
20 November 2009
Library keeps Sex, Etc. magazine in teen section
By Jennifer Meyer, Staff Writer
Published: Friday, November 20, 2009 11:49 AM CST
A magazine about sex will stay where teens can find it at the Ames Public Library.
The Library Board of Trustees voted 6-1 Thursday to support Director Art Weeks’ recommendation to continue openly displaying and offering free copies of Sex, Etc. in the teen section.
Trustee Melody Warnick, however, said she agonized over the issue before casting the dissenting vote.
“It is very frank and honest in a way that teens need,” Warnick said, “but I agree with the Bannantines’ complaint … that we’re privileging this magazine over everything else that we have in the library.”
http://www.amestrib.com/articles/2009/11/20/ames_tribune/news/doc4b05f6d68a99e797160561.txt
Published: Friday, November 20, 2009 11:49 AM CST
A magazine about sex will stay where teens can find it at the Ames Public Library.
The Library Board of Trustees voted 6-1 Thursday to support Director Art Weeks’ recommendation to continue openly displaying and offering free copies of Sex, Etc. in the teen section.
Trustee Melody Warnick, however, said she agonized over the issue before casting the dissenting vote.
“It is very frank and honest in a way that teens need,” Warnick said, “but I agree with the Bannantines’ complaint … that we’re privileging this magazine over everything else that we have in the library.”
http://www.amestrib.com/articles/2009/11/20/ames_tribune/news/doc4b05f6d68a99e797160561.txt
16 November 2009
Panel votes to remove book from library
Twenty years after the band Nirvana released its first album a District 192 review panel has decided a book about the band’s lead singer is inappropriate for elementary and middle school students.
The panel reviewed the book, “Kurt Cobain,” Nov. 4 after the parent of a Riverview Elementary School third grader filed a complaint. The book is from publisher Edge Books’ Rock Music Library series of books. According to administrative services director Rosalyn Pautzke, a member of the review panel, it is geared toward students from ages 12 to 15.
A summary at online bookseller bn.com describes the book as high-interest material “coupled with a reading level for middle elementary grades.”
But Pautzke said most on the review panel found the book’s material too dark for the elementary-age audience it was presented to. The first image inside the book’s cover is a glossy, full-color image of Cobain’s body being wheeled out of his home following his suicide in 1994.
http://www.farmingtonindependent.com/event/article/id/13049/
The panel reviewed the book, “Kurt Cobain,” Nov. 4 after the parent of a Riverview Elementary School third grader filed a complaint. The book is from publisher Edge Books’ Rock Music Library series of books. According to administrative services director Rosalyn Pautzke, a member of the review panel, it is geared toward students from ages 12 to 15.
A summary at online bookseller bn.com describes the book as high-interest material “coupled with a reading level for middle elementary grades.”
But Pautzke said most on the review panel found the book’s material too dark for the elementary-age audience it was presented to. The first image inside the book’s cover is a glossy, full-color image of Cobain’s body being wheeled out of his home following his suicide in 1994.
http://www.farmingtonindependent.com/event/article/id/13049/
Wichita Falls Parents Seek To Ban A Book
The book called The Egypt Game is part of a reading list in a fourth-grade class at Southern Hills Elementary. Some parents have a problem with the reading selection. The book has been an optional part of the Wichita Falls School District's curriculum for years. However, the Turnbow family said they won't stop until the book is banned.
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It's a Newbery Award-winning story about a group of children who invent a game involving Egyptian gods, but the Turnbows said its not a game they want their child knowing about.
http://www.kauz.com/news/local/69721972.html
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It's a Newbery Award-winning story about a group of children who invent a game involving Egyptian gods, but the Turnbows said its not a game they want their child knowing about.
http://www.kauz.com/news/local/69721972.html
Middle schools yank graphic cartoon book
A cartoon anthology filled with teenage angst, four-letter words and some drug and sexual references has been pulled from the student library collections at two Sioux Falls public middle schools.
The school district averages about one complaint per year concerning library material, but this is the first time since at least 2001 that a book has been made unavailable to students.
A committee that reviewed the graphic novel said unanimously that it's inappropriate for middle school students. The book's editor says the cartoons are true to life and could help struggling teens and pre-teens understand that they're not alone.
http://www.argusleader.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/200911110155/NEWS/911110303
The school district averages about one complaint per year concerning library material, but this is the first time since at least 2001 that a book has been made unavailable to students.
A committee that reviewed the graphic novel said unanimously that it's inappropriate for middle school students. The book's editor says the cartoons are true to life and could help struggling teens and pre-teens understand that they're not alone.
http://www.argusleader.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/200911110155/NEWS/911110303
Novel will not be banned from Roanoke Co. school libraries
However, freshmen and sophomores will need parental permission to check out "The Perks of Being a Wallflower."
http://www.roanoke.com/news/roanoke/wb/226161
http://www.roanoke.com/news/roanoke/wb/226161
06 November 2009
Roanoke Schools Temporarily Removes 'Perks of Being a Wallflower'
By Lauren Barack -- School Library Journal, 11/4/2009 2:05:00 PM
Stephen Chbosky’s The Perks of Being a Wallflower (MTV, 1999) is in trouble again—and this time it’s been removed from shelves as it goes through the review process outlined by Virginia’s Roanoke County Public Schools.
Read the full article at:
http://www.schoollibraryjournal.com/article/CA6705458.html
Stephen Chbosky’s The Perks of Being a Wallflower (MTV, 1999) is in trouble again—and this time it’s been removed from shelves as it goes through the review process outlined by Virginia’s Roanoke County Public Schools.
Read the full article at:
http://www.schoollibraryjournal.com/article/CA6705458.html
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