[LAW-LIB:56540] RE: Sarah Palin and Libraries

From: Stephanie Huthmacher (shuthmacher@lglaw.com)
Date: Thu Sep 04 2008 - 13:51:57 PDT

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    Spoken like a true member of the legal profession...

     

    I, too, am a legal librarian. I find the banning of books repulsive and
    any intrusion into ones personal library records abhorrent.

    Perhaps if parents were to talk to their children, or pop their heads
    into their rooms once in a while, they could get an idea on what the
    kids are doing, rather than relying on the librarian to monitor
    behavior.

     

    If you don't like a book, don't read it - if you don't like a movie,
    don't watch it. No one holds a gun to anyone's heading forcing them to
    do anything they find offensive. Time to take responsibility for your
    own actions without impinging on the rights of others...

     

     

     Stephanie N. Huthmacher, MLS

    42 Delaware Avenue, Suite 120

    Buffalo, New York 14202-3924

    Phone: 716.849.1333 ext. 330

    Fax: 716.855.1580

    E-mail: shuthmacher@lglaw.com

     

     

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    From: owner-law-lib@ucdavis.edu [mailto:owner-law-lib@ucdavis.edu] On
    Behalf Of Frye, Nanna
    Sent: Thursday, September 04, 2008 4:42 PM
    To: Library; law-lib@ucdavis.edu
    Subject: [LAW-LIB:56539] RE: Sarah Palin and Libraries

     

        Ah, but you did inject partisan politics into it, Paula, by the
    manner in which you related these facts. Is anyone in doubt as to your
    position on Sarah Palin after reading your posting? You certainly did
    not supply both sides of the story. Reasonable minds could differ on
    the legislation you mentioned below on whether parents could learn about
    the books their children are borrowing from a library. If your teenage
    child has been moody and you discover a library book on suicide in the
    teenager's room, shouldn't you be able to find out if the child had
    borrowed other books on suicide? Many would say "yes." Was the
    censoring a blanket act that applied to adults and children or just to
    children? Are we talking about literary books or titillating junk
    novellas that Palin wanted to censor? Again, we don't have both sides
    of the story. After many, many years of working for a court, it is very
    rare when there are not two sides to a story.

     

        I will reserve judgment until I have ALL of the facts. I would
    prefer that we avoid political postings on law-lib about the
    presidential election even if they do allegedly deal with "library
    topics."

                          Nanna Frye, Law Librarian
                          Court of Appeal
                          San Diego, CA

     

     

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    From: owner-law-lib@ucdavis.edu [mailto:owner-law-lib@ucdavis.edu] On
    Behalf Of Library
    Sent: Thursday, September 04, 2008 10:54 AM
    To: law-lib@ucdavis.edu
    Subject: [LAW-LIB:56536] Sarah Palin and Libraries

    I know this isn't the place for partisan politics and I'm not going to
    discuss what I think of Sarah Palin's positions on abortion or foreign
    policy or whether polar bears belong on the Endangered Species Act. But
    she did try to censor books in the Wasilla Public Library and she did
    try to fire the librarian for not agreeing to do so. And she did support
    a bill in the legislature that would have forced librarians to tell
    parents what books their children had checked out of the library.

    I thought, as librarians, you might want to know her position on
    libraries and censorship.
    There is a well documented anti-Palin librarian's web site that
    discusses this. issues:http://librariansagainstpalin.wordpress.com/

    Paula Lichtenberg, Librarian
    Keker & Van Nest LLP, San Francisco


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