The Search Engine Optimization Guy chimes in again with a couple on the right to read.
One From NYSut looks at when a parent decided one of Searle’s book choices was inappropriate for the entire Wappingers school district in the lower Hudson area, Searle became embroiled in a yearlong battle to defend her right to teach – and her students’ right to learn.
Meanwhile, over at SPTimes they cover the oft-challenged Judy Bloom. Hernando, FL, school officials finally have assembled a committee to consider publicly whether a challenged Judy Blume novel belongs on elementary school shelves.
By Douglass Shand-Tucci. Censored BPL guide.
By Douglass Shand-Tucci in the book The Crimson Letter pages 49 and 79…
‘We know something more of these clubs [St. Botolph Club, Tavern Club]
from the more intimate memories of some of their leading members.
Theodore Dwight, for instance. He was appointed director of the
Boston Public Library on the eve of the opening of its palatal new building
Copley Square, and his lifestyle sheds much light on these circles in the
1890’s.’
‘This at a time when Leaves of Grass, locked up at Harvard’s library, was
also double-starred at the Boston Public Library–Lent only on application
to adult students.’
‘Dwight was close to Henry Adams as well as to Isabella Stewart Gardner, and
also knew well the Harvard scientist mentioned in Chapter 1,
William Woodworth. The nature of these intimacies? Consider Dwight’s
correspondence with Gardner “of a nature ‘in his words’ quite too
confidential to have been written with propriety.” ‘
‘Homosexuality in Boston, particularly in this era, is itself very sotto
voce. But, like the figure in the carpet, if one listens and looks hard,
it can be pretty evident.’
Page 350…
“Nor do I mind as much as I should that the Boston Public Library still
refuses to publish (though they have duly paid for it) my evidently too
inclusive guide to that landmark.”
By Douglass Shand-Tucci.
Censored Boston Public Library Guide. Page 350, The Crimson Letter.
Newsgroups: alt.censorship
http://groups.google.com
By Douglass Shand-Tucci
“…Boston Public Library refuses to publish though they have duly
paid for it my evidently too inclusive guide to that landmark.”
Ask for the Censored Boston Public Library Guide
by Douglass Shand-Tucci.
Reference…
page 350 in the book… The Crimson Letter
By Douglass Shand-Tucci
Note Douglass is spelled with ss
Boston Public Library President Bernie Margolis and BPL chair
Bill Taylor are the Head Censors.
Have you had any difficulty obtaining access to reading the Censored
Boston Public Library Guide?… Ask Intellectual Freedom Advocate
Marnie Warner for assistance
http://www.masslib.org/people.htm
the silence is deafening
Where is Bibliofuture’s stock defense of censorship on this story? I need that morning chuckle.
Re:the silence is deafening
Please point out to me a post of mine that contains “a stock defense of censorship”?
this board has a mindset similar to Slashdot’s
I’ve been reading Slashdot for several years, and there are obvious similarities with this board: dissenting opinions are ridiculed rather than discussed, and a general sense of superiority to the rest of society due to possessing specialized knowledge. I was going to add that this board doesn’t have 14-year-olds bragging about their skills, but the anonymous poster’s tactic of baiting Bibliofuture is appropriate for that age range.
Question for Anon
Ironic you (Anon) choose to “censor” your identity.
Question. As a librarian (assuming you are) have you ever censored?