I’m not trying to keep it from the kids. i’m trying to keep it from everyone!
The Weld Library District out here in Colorado is deciding to keep It’s Perfectly Normal: Changing Bodies, Growing Up, Sex & Sexual Health on the shelf. According to this Greeley Tribune article, a picket of two may be forthcoming. Here are my favorite quotes from the article:
“They pick up a book like this and their sexual curiosity is awakened. Their passions are aroused,” McAllister said.
“The Rev. Ray Grant said the book – which broaches topics such as sexual abuse, sexually transmitted disease, homosexuality and abortion – is unsuitable for children and even most adults.”
“Children’s curiosity about sex should be satisfied only after marriage, and if they are afraid of sexually transmitted disease, “let them abstain,” Grant said.”
Luckily, the library board is holding thier ground.
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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