Censorship is both a library and a legal issue. Firing a librarian for
failure to conform to a call to censor from a political leader is a
critically important legal issue of importance to all librarians.
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Censoring a fellow librarian for posting information regarding such
censorship is not a part of the nature of librarianship with which I am
familiar, the idea of librarians as providers of information. Is there a
reason why some of the professionals in a profession that fights the
banning of books have members who argue for the banning of messages from
discussion groups of librarians because messages are viewed as advocating
a political point of view in a matter pertinent to libraries and library
practice?
Sincerely,
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On Thu, 4 Sep 2008, Stephanie Huthmacher wrote:
> Spoken like a true member of the legal profession...
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> I, too, am a legal librarian. I find the banning of books repulsive and
> any intrusion into ones personal library records abhorrent.
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> 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.
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> 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...
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> Stephanie N. Huthmacher, MLS
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> 42 Delaware Avenue, Suite 120
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> Buffalo, New York 14202-3924
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> Phone: 716.849.1333 ext. 330
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> Fax: 716.855.1580
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> E-mail: shuthmacher@lglaw.com
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> ________________________________
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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
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> 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.
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> 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/
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> Paula Lichtenberg, Librarian
> Keker & Van Nest LLP, San Francisco
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