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Subject: Re: Books Banned in Utah.
Date: Tue, 13 Aug 2024 08:49:28 -0700
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On Tue, 13 Aug 2024 13:34:56 -0000 (UTC), jdnicoll@panix.com (James
Nicoll) wrote:

>In article <pe1mbjpl9qlen8vudkj6gc21k73abqsnmh@4ax.com>,
>The Horny Goat  <lcraver@home.ca> wrote:
>>On Wed, 7 Aug 2024 18:13:29 -0700, Dimensional Traveler
>><dtravel@sonic.net> wrote:
>>
>>>> Any kids who want a copy can browbeat their parents into buying one,
>>>> or find a copy in the adult section of a public library.
>>>
>>>What makes you think kids are _allowed_ into the adult section of a=20
>>>public library in Utah?
>>
>>Har har har ..... starting when I was 8 years old I regularly hung
>>around the adult section of the public library though it was mostly
>>for (a) science fiction (mostly Heinlein at that age, I didn't
>>discover Asimov and Poul Anderson till later) and Asimov science
>>books.
>
>Waterloo Public Library had a kids section and an adult section,
>but some librarians could not be bothered to police kids wandering
>upstairs. As well, nobody on staff read SF and their working=20
>assumption seemed to be that if an author wrote some kids books,
>they only wrote kids books. So Left Hand of Darkness and I Will
>Fear No Evil were in the kids section.=20

Thus, presumably, "providing context". Which is what we have been
assured librarians do.

The public library branch I went to was so strict I gave up on them
after I had read /every/ book in the Kiddie's Section.

That's when I discovered used book stores. Which had lots and lots of
science fiction paperbacks.
--=20
"Here lies the Tuscan poet Aretino,
Who evil spoke of everyone but God,
Giving as his excuse, 'I never knew him.'"