Re: Censorship/"Selection"
Cynthia Levay (levay@laurel.albertus.edu)
Fri, 7 Nov 1997 16:31:40 -0500
Date: Fri, 7 Nov 1997 16:31:40 -0500
Message-Id: <Chameleon.971107163854.levay@blueberry.albertus.edu>
From: Cynthia Levay <levay@laurel.albertus.edu>
To: Multiple recipients of list <conntech>
Subject: Re: Censorship/"Selection"
One library has a policy not to purchase anything with a spiral bound or
that is not library bound, so they obviously did not purchase "Sex".
Another library purchased the book knowing that it would stolen
(additionally, it was not a book that they wanted either) so, they left it
open and "unattended" and surely enough, it was stolen within a week.
CL
---------------Original Message---------------
One library in the Hartford area also purchased the book. Their policy at
the time was to purchase anything that had a specified number of requests.
And Madonna had those.
Isabel
At 10:19 PM 11/6/97 -0500, you wrote:
>
>Sue Palmieri wrote:
>
>>RE: your question about how many libraries had Madonna's Sex book, a
person
>>in charge of selecting books for their library has to seriously consider
>>where there book budget money will be best spent.
>
>I was on the Board of Trustees of a library that bought the book. The
library
>had a policy to buy books on the New York Times bestseller list -- it was
a big
>demand book, long waiting list at the time.
>
>JMK
>
>
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Isabel L. Danforth Reference Librarian, Wethersfield Public Library
danforth@tiac.net Coordinator of Librarians' Online Support Team
http://www.gnacademy.org:8001/~lost/
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Name: Cynthia A.Levay "Information Services Librarian"
E-mail: levay@blueberry.albertus.edu (Cynthia Levay)
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Date: 11/07/97
Time: 16:23:41
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