[LAW-LIB:56553] RE: Sarah Palin and Libraries

From: Bryan Carson (bryan.m.carson@vanderbilt.edu)
Date: Thu Sep 04 2008 - 07:37:11 PDT

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    Hold on to your hats--the (im)famous Leslie Germain has surfaced again!
    "Folks, it's going to be a bumpy ride here at 40,000 feet."

    Bryan

    Bryan M. Carson, J.D., M.I.L.S.
    Ed.D. Student
    Higher Ed. Leadership & Policy, Vanderbilt University/Peabody College

    Associate Professor/Coordinator of Reference & Instructional Services
    Western Kentucky University Libraries
    Author, "The Law of Libraries and Archives" (Scarecrow Press)

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    Leslie Germaine wrote:
    > Yes, censorship is a legal issue and the post is entirely appropriate.
    >
    > As with Paula Lichtenberg, I will not inject partisan politics into
    > the debate by speaking of things like Barack Obama's association with
    > the African-American equivalent (Reverand Wright) of a Klan Grand
    > Dragon, nor will I mention his association with the unrepentant
    > terrorist William "Bill" Ayers. But the attempts by the University of
    > Chicago via its Richard J. Daley Library to embargo documents relating
    > to Obama's relationship with the Chicago Annenberg Challenge, a
    > foundation where Ayers was a founder and guiding force, deserves,
    > indeed requires our concern as law librarians. This sorry saga is
    > well documented by Stanley Kurtz here:
    > http://article.nationalreview.com/?q=MTgwZTVmN2QyNzk2MmUxMzA5OTg0ODZlM2Y2OGI0NDM=
    >
    >



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