Banned book week has come and gone, but there are plenty of (should be) banned books you still haven't read! What's the matter with you people-- don't you believe in the free exchange of ideas? That constant sifting and winnowing by which alone the truth can be found? Of course you do! So, when's the last time you curled up with a copy of Mein Kampf? How about Dopefiend? Or The Turner diaries? When did you last read The Story of Little Black Sambo to your kids at bedtime?
It's been too long, hasn't it?
But that's just the stuff we own! So where, oh where, is our copy of Sexual Conversion Therapy: Ethical, Clincial, and Research Perspectives? The Jewish Peril: Protocols of the Learned Elders of Zion? The Librarian's Naughty Habit? Every one of these is guaranteed to get someone's undies in a bunch! So why doesn't YOUR library carry a copy? Wouldn't this be just the thing to get people excited about the library again?
Well, now we want your ideas! Give us some ideas for the type of materials we're NOT collecting, and let us know what we're all missing! Click here to give us your attention-grabbing ideas!
And don't forget to celebrate libraries!
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This is a great idea for using banned book week, promote the "non collection" that we all have... or is that we don't have.
Thanks for reading! I'm disappointed more people haven't weighed in with comments calling for me to undergo some serious re-education. Obviously, I'm not being outrageous enough. I hope I'm getting some responses to the survey.
I"m really curious about your survey responses - will you be posting those? :)
I'd be happy to post the results once people start filling out the survey. And I promise not to name names! Just titles! *sigh* I don't know what the worst case scenario is: that nobody reads my blog; that nobody can think of a title that should be banned; or that the only titles they can think we should ban are ones we already own! BTW, did you vote? (Full disclosure, there's only one response so far, so you might be outing yourself if you say yes)
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