Posted on 09/23/2016 8:09:58 AM PDT by Behind Liberal Lines
A Gainesville, Florida, resident is crying foul at the local library’s refusal to add “Clinton Cash: A Graphic Novel” to its collection.
The book is an adaptation by Chuck Dixon and Brett R. Smith of Peter Schweizer’s nonfiction book of the same name, which is highly critical of Bill and Hillary Clinton.
When Ann Lhota asked the Alachua County library to buy a copy of the graphic novel, officials said no.
“When the book was requested, we already had 11 copies in four formats,” said spokesman Nickie Kortus, referring to the prose version.
Lhota, who asked the library to purchase the book when it topped the New York Times graphic books best-seller list, has a different point of view.
“Graphic novels are hot right now,” she said. “They don’t want to put this graphic novel on the shelf because they know it will be successful.”
When she offered to buy a copy and donate it, the library refused.
“It’s not a common practice for people to buy a book and put it on our shelf,” Kortus said.
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Librarys still exist? I thought they were just homeless shelters now
Give me a break. They already had 11 copies. Libraries have limited shelf space.
[Librarys still exist? ]
I only ever go to them for the free wifi when I want to post things on internet where I would not want to be tracked to my home or work....
So, buy a dozen or so and donate them.
My library got it just fine.
They also have a couple of books just engaging in infantile mocking at Trump.
The point is that this library has officially failed at its mission, and the librarian in charge of buying the books will need to be fired.
Are you at the library now?
Oh, I see.
I wonder what the problem is then?
She offered to buy a copy and the library said no.
The real test here would be to have a friend bring in a similarly scathing book on Trump, or Bush, or even the dreaded Koch Brothers, and see if the library would consider buying or accepting a donation of that tome.
If they do, you would have every right to raise holy bloody hell with them. If they refuse the second book with a similar reason, then you can consider them to be a waste of tax payer money in general.
According to the library spokesbabe they won’t accept a donation.
Yes - mine has a “friends of the library” sale every quarter. I go in on the last day for a grocery bag of books for $3. My wife is always livid because I’ll come home with 10 bags for $30. I’ve gotten everything from 1800s to most recent items. I usually focus on reference material that doesn’t change - peterson guides, classics, etc....but I just can’t help myself around the sci-fi/fantasy.
Authors have been donating there books to libraries for years. I am sure the reason the library does not want the book is that a graphic novel is 20 times more likely to be picked up and read by a child. Most people form there political opinion when they are children and this graphic novel has the potential to change a generation of children’s view of the democratic party.
Oh for heaven’s sakes.
Guilty of that myself.
Books on woodworking tend to not need new editions to be useful.
It’s Banned Book Week
I doubt seriously the head librarian’s intent is as politically calculated as you suggest.
More likely the librarian just doesn’t want the comic book version, preferring the real deal instead.
My local library gets lots of donations of Shakespeare and various classics in “graphic novel” form, and the librarian immediately puts them in the Free Box by the exit. Children or adults can take them or not, and if they don’t, she tosses them in the trash after a few days.
The story did mention the library already had 11 copies of the book in 4 formats; some no doubt easier to read for less mature readers. So insisting the librarian was censoring its content is just silly.
Btw, the word you’re looking for is “their.”
disagree with you on this. graphic novels are a lot more acceptable in libraries then they were twenty years ago. if you go to the young adult section of a library you will find about 20 percent of the new reading material being graphic novels.
Librarians are constantly called upon to make judgment calls on material that are presented and generally do a good job at giving open access to all materials the problem I have is that the book is that the graphic novel and has nationally toped the new York times graphic novels list this year witch makes it significant and current most libraries are fighting to keep there content current and it is older materials that they say no to. if the librarian were to say no to the graphic novel three or four years from now when it is not current then I would say it probably was not political as far as the decision not to carry it.
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