I don’t know if you’ve heard about the report from The Smoking Gun that accuses James Frey, author of A Million Little Pieces of basically lying throughout the book but that’s not the news I’m actually posting about. What prompted this post is that fact that the Topeka and Shawnee County Public Library has posted about it on their blog PaperCuts. Now that’s service! Here’s a best seller that I assume still has a whole bunch of people on the waiting list, yet the library is letting people know that there’s a controversy. (If only we’d done this back when The Bell Curve was pointed out to be the load of crap that it was.) In fairness to Mr. Frey, the library has also linked to his rebuttal.
Now, anyone interested in telling your patrons that Natural Cures They Don’t Want You to Know Aboutisn’t worth reading either?
Michael Sauers is the Director of Logan Library in Logan, UT. Prior to this he was one of the founding staff and Technology Manager for Do Space in Omaha, NE. After earning his MLS in 1995 from the University at Albany's School of Information Science and Policy Michael spent his first 20 years as a librarian training other librarians in technology along with time as a public library trustee, a bookstore manager for a library friends group, a reference librarian, a technology consultant, and a bookseller. He has written dozens of articles for various journals and magazines and has published 14 books ranging from library technology, blogging, Web design, and an index to a popular horror magazine. In his spare time, he blogs at TravelinLibrarian.info, runs The Collector's Guide to Dean Koontz website at CollectingKoontz.com, takes many, many photos, and typically reads more than 100 books a year.
Unless otherwise stated, all opinions are my own and are not to be considered those of the City of Logan, UT.
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One Reply to “Presenting both sides of the story”
Isn’t worth reading? What a non-librarian thing to say, Michael. Even if it’s exaggerated, or flat out made up, if the bok has the effect that many of the readers believe it’s having on them, why does anyone care?
Isn’t worth reading? What a non-librarian thing to say, Michael. Even if it’s exaggerated, or flat out made up, if the bok has the effect that many of the readers believe it’s having on them, why does anyone care?