I don’t blog most of the book-banning related stories I read since they’re well documented on other blogs. However, this story happened here in Colorado and the things said in the article are just amazing. It seems that the superintendent of Norwood High School gave a all of the copies of Rudolfo Anaya’s Bless Me, Ultimato a parent to destroy without, of course, reading the whole book. The good thing is that at least one of the school’s juniors only heard of the book because of the controversy and specifically read it in response.
via LISNews
Michael Sauers is currently the Director of Technology for Do Space in Omaha, NE. Michael has been training librarians in technology for the past twenty years and has also been a public library trustee, a bookstore manager for a library friends group, a reference librarian, serials cataloger, technology consultant, and bookseller since earning his MLS in 1995 from the University at Albany’s School of Information Science and Policy. Michael has also written dozens of articles for various journals and magazines and his fourteenth book, Emerging Technologies: A Primer for Librarians (w/ Jennifer Koerber) was published in May 2015 and more books are on the way. In his spare time he blogs at travelinlibrarian.info, runs The Collector’s Guide to Dean Koontz Web site, takes many, many photos, and typically reads more than 100 books a year.
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