LISNews: Librarian News

Here's Another Story on Michael Moore, and the trouble he had with Stupid White Men.
If you're not familiar with the story it goes something like this, guy writes book, book gets printed, terrorists attack, publisher wants to pulp book, librarians catch wind of the pulping, book gets published, librarians save the day.
ReganBooks claims the librarians had minimal impact. "We did not receive a lot of comment from librarians, not a lot of feedback from outside,"
The rest of the article takes a good look at Self-censorship in the publishing industry.

Julie Ourom writes \"A CBC Story.
If you aren\'t familiar with the story - Homolka and her then husband Paul Bernardo were convicted of the brutal sex slayings of two teenage girls back in the mid 90s. This is the second book Williams has written on the subject - and there\'s the usual controversy about capitalising on murders. An added dimension is that this one is only published in French, which will limit its audience.How should libraries decide to add or not add this to their collections?\"

They say the book was written after 18-month correspondence with Homolka. This seems odd since part of her plea deal was that Homolka would not \"talk directly ... or indirectly to the media for a book ... or like endeavour.\"

Karl Bridges passed along News That A university professor sentenced to death in Iran for insulting Islam has refused to appeal the sentence, challenging the hard-line judiciary to carry out the execution, his lawyer said Wednesday.
The verdict against Hashem Aghajari touched off days of demonstrations in Iran, That will Continue.

Charles Davis writes "Yahoo! News has one that says Communist Cuba has agreed to a U.S.-funded project to preserve
thousands of Ernest Hemingway's documents and photographs found decaying at his
Havana estate along with stuffed animal heads and rifles wrapped in parcel paper. "