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From: Steward, Celeste <csteward_at_aclibrary.org>
Date: Fri, 15 Oct 2010 12:35:58 -0700
Many years ago, I worked at a library where we did group selection...we rec eived a picture book on branding of farm animals...the manager in charge fo und it terribly offensive...and, I'm sorry to say we didn't buy it...someti mes selection is also a workplace political issue. None of the younger libr arians (including myself) wanted to go against her directive by defending t he book and adding it to our collections...
Celeste Steward Alameda County Library
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From: bookmarch_at_aol.com
Sent: Friday, October 15, 2010 6:15 AM To: johncoy_at_mac.com; ccbc-net@lists.wisc.edu Subject: Re:
ccbc-net digest: October 14, 2010
Vicki Smith wrote about the problem of the lack of hunting book for kids in the September/October 2004 issue of the Horn Book -- available online -- t he piece is called "A Hunting We Won't Go"
I am sorry if talk of hunting and battle and books and kids upsets some her e, but these are real and true and in many respects valid interests of youn g people and the problem is not their lack of desire to read -- and read go od, responsible, thoughtful, books -- it is our discomfort. And that is som ething we need to face. A profession committed to intellectual freedom must constantly be alert to its own biases.
Marc Aronson
Date: Fri, 15 Oct 2010 12:35:58 -0700
Many years ago, I worked at a library where we did group selection...we rec eived a picture book on branding of farm animals...the manager in charge fo und it terribly offensive...and, I'm sorry to say we didn't buy it...someti mes selection is also a workplace political issue. None of the younger libr arians (including myself) wanted to go against her directive by defending t he book and adding it to our collections...
Celeste Steward Alameda County Library
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From: bookmarch_at_aol.com
Sent: Friday, October 15, 2010 6:15 AM To: johncoy_at_mac.com; ccbc-net@lists.wisc.edu Subject: Re:
ccbc-net digest: October 14, 2010
Vicki Smith wrote about the problem of the lack of hunting book for kids in the September/October 2004 issue of the Horn Book -- available online -- t he piece is called "A Hunting We Won't Go"
I am sorry if talk of hunting and battle and books and kids upsets some her e, but these are real and true and in many respects valid interests of youn g people and the problem is not their lack of desire to read -- and read go od, responsible, thoughtful, books -- it is our discomfort. And that is som ething we need to face. A profession committed to intellectual freedom must constantly be alert to its own biases.
Marc Aronson
---Received on Fri 15 Oct 2010 12:35:58 PM CDT
