“Is this heaven?” “It’s Iowa.”*
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From Public Libraries News UK:
- USA – Banishing Captain Underpants: An investigation of the 3,400 books pulled in Iowa – USA Today. Iowa. “districts removed nearly 3,400 books and two DVDs to comply with the law, including nearly 1,000 unique titles.” Books include ““To Kill a Mockingbird” by Harper Lee, the Newbery Medal novel “The Giver” by Lois Lowry and “Captain Underpants and the Sensational Saga of Sir Stinks-A-Lot,” 1984 by George Orwell also removed by several library districts. see also The effects House Bill 710 will have on one room libraries in Idaho – KMVT.
- USA – Banishing Captain Underpants: An investigation of the 3,400 books pulled in Iowa – USA Today. Iowa. “districts removed nearly 3,400 books and two DVDs to comply with the law, including nearly 1,000 unique titles.” Books include ““To Kill a Mockingbird” by Harper Lee, the Newbery Medal novel “The Giver” by Lois Lowry and “Captain Underpants and the Sensational Saga of Sir Stinks-A-Lot,” 1984 by George Orwell also removed by several library districts. see also The effects House Bill 710 will have on one room libraries in Idaho – KMVT. “House Bill 710 explicitly states that a book that an adult deems inappropriate, has to be relocated to the adults-only section in the library. For one-room libraries, this poses an issue, of whether they will completely take the book out of the library as a whole or change their policies.”
For one-room libraries, this poses an issue of whether they will completely take the book out of the library as a whole or change their policies.”
…and the background to what’s going on
- With censorship on the rise, Providence librarian says Rhode Island needs to do more to protect libraries – Publics Radio.
NEWS FROM CRYSTAL PALACE COMMENT:
There’s a very easy way to stop this politically-inspired nonsense. If you live in Iowa (or anywhere else in the USA where this is happening) visit your local library / libraries and tell them you deem all the biographies and autobiographies and all other books written about, or by, American politicians “inappropriate”… And maybe, while you’re there, add a few books of your own choice which you don’t like…
*From the Kevin Costner film ‘Field of Dreams’)
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