[Publib] Fwd: [LAW-LIB:56514] Sarah Palin supported banning books

[Karen Mahnk]

This is something we perhaps should look at more closely [see below]:
*I'd put money on the guess that she wanted "It's not the Stork" off the
library shelves ;-)
*--
Karen Mahnk,
Reference Librarian
Lake Park Public Library
529 Park Avenue
Lake Park, Fl., 33403
561 881-3330 Fax: 561881-3336
kmahnk at lakeparkflorida.gov
www.lakepark-fl.gov

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From: Susan Lyons <govdocs at andromeda.rutgers.edu>
Date: Tue, Sep 2, 2008 at 10:39 AM
Subject: [LAW-LIB:56514] Sarah Palin supported banning books
To: law-lib <law-lib at ucdavis.edu>


An article from Time Magazine's website has this bit of information that I
thought might be of interest as we get ready for Banned Books Week:

"Stein says that as mayor, Palin continued to inject religious beliefs into
her policy at times. "She asked the library how she could go about banning
books," he says, because some voters thought they had inappropriate language
in them. "The librarian was aghast." The librarian, Mary Ellen Baker,
couldn't be reached for comment, but news reports from the time show that
Palin had threatened to fire her for not giving "full support" to the
mayor."

Link to the full article:
http://www.time.com/time/politics/article/0,8599,1837918,00.html

Susan Lyons
Rutgers Law Library - Newark
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