I'm a librarian

[winkingstar]

So there's this book called Uncle Bobby's Wedding by Sarah S. Brannen. It was published this spring and I haven't seen it myself (yet). But it's about a girl who's favourite uncle is getting married to another man (er, badger? squirrel? mouse? some woodland critter I can't identify, but the point is she's going to have two uncles (well, that's

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[lacontessa11]

That's pretty much my opinion too. There's lots of things I don't want to read, I wouldn't want my children reading, and that I'm kind of annoyed that other people want to read, but I don't think the books should disappear totally. I would be pissed off if someone decided, say, graphic novels don't belong in libraries, so I'm not going to tell people that THEIR books don't belong in libraries. I just don't need to read them.

[winkingstar]

Exactly! There's a library saying, which Larue kind of mentioned in the excerpt I posted, that if a library is doing it's job then there's something in it to offend everyone. Because we're all different and we're not all offended by the same things.

[accidentalfan]

Amen. And thanks for linking to the whole letter, it was marvelously done.

[winkingstar]

I'm glad you liked it! It was just so awesome, I had to link to it and then do my own First Amendment speech of sorts.