[Publib] It's Banned Books Week (but don't tell my patrons?)

[Fred Beisser]

Maybe we should retitle the week to "Formerly Banned Books Week." These 
days there are very few books (if any) that would be banned in the 
libraries that I have been associated with. When you read a great 
response to a patron's request to ban a book like this one at 
http://jaslarue.blogspot.com/2008/07/uncle-bobbys-wedding.html , why 
would any book be banned in this day and age?

Fred Beisser
Trustee
www.elbertcountylibrary.org
(Colorado)

jessica at tcpls.org wrote:
> I work in a small library, serving just under 50,000 people in the 
> county.  We are an economically mixed bunch, there are some very 
> wealthy people here, and many poor people, most of neither of which is 
> college educated.  The very small lower middle to middle class 
> population is however college educated but they are a rare few. 
>
> I face the conundrum of wanting to celebrate Banned Books Week here in 
> our library but not wanting to give anyone the idea that they can just 
> request for a book to be banned or censored from the library.  Fact is 
> though, that they can, they just don't know it.  This one simple fact 
> I wish to keep them ignorant of.  But, I still want to celebrate 
> banned books week.  
>
> Suggestions?
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