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• magickalrealism commented on Library workers fired for colluding to keep graphic novel from being checked out by 11-year old girl
  Were these woman bona fide librarians with advanced degrees or just local clerical workers? I know from working in a library it's not just librarians that can screw with book traffic. If they are actually degreed librarians, there's an additional degree of shame involved. Librarians sign on to uphold the right of free access to information. As to marking the dirty bits...weird. Seems like there's a chemical brain imbalance involved in this story somewhere....
• Garrison commented on Library workers fired for colluding to keep graphic novel from being checked out by 11-year old girl
  Please let us note the language used in the article. The two women were called "library workers." I take this to mean that they were not librarians. Not that some librarians aren't prone to this kind of behavior, but it's much less likely given our education on access/censorship/free speech. This is a wake-up call to professional staff to supervise more closely and make sure their non-degreed colleagues understand the censorship issues and comply with freedom of access. Also, probably a good idea to shelve the more controversial manga/graphic novels in Adult Dewey instead of in the Young Adult section. That...
• jessi_face commented on Library workers fired for colluding to keep graphic novel from being checked out by 11-year old girl
  Good question. Yes, of course we can, and often do! What's the point of guiding someone to a bad reading experience? "Oh, You don't like gore? Perhaps Creepers is not for you. Lets find something more to your liking."...
• Gilbert Wham commented on Library workers fired for colluding to keep graphic novel from being checked out by 11-year old girl
  I've had problems as a child with trying to check out 'Adult' books (Dune, to be precise). However, there were books in the kid's section that were up there with Hubert Selby sex & violence-wise, they just had juvenile-looking covers....
• PyotrZ commented on Library workers fired for colluding to keep graphic novel from being checked out by 11-year old girl
  As a Lexingtonian, I feel I must point out a factual error: Lexington is not in Jessamine County. Lexington is Fayette County, and it is a bona fide city boasting a not-entirely-lame research university. Jessamine County is to the south and far more rural. The Lexington library system did have its own recent scandal, however: the former head of the library district was run out of town due to improper use of library funds. Good riddance, as by all accounts she was a harridan who abused her employees....