tncorgi sent over This Story on Gay Kitchen Cummins, 86, who’s been a librarian since the 1950’s. She says they had to keep Lady Chatterley’s Lover and the Kinsey sex report hidden under the counter.
“And once, I was sued for a book I had put on a hospital cart. It was a novel, Pulitzer Prize winner A.B. Guthrie’s The Way West. I was sued because a reader claimed to be offended by a paragraph about pioneers “mountain men” on a hunt who call in their dogs to put out the campfire by urinating on it. Being sued was scary, but the judge dismissed it.”
They say when she got started, libraries were dead quiet and used the Dewey Decimal System and the card catalog with check-out cards for the books. Today, a library is an information cafeteria with everything from books and tapes to DVDs and electronic databases, along with dozens of activities. And you get an electronic printout of the books you borrow.
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