[LonghornFreeper]

Infuriating as this is, in the long run it doesn't matter in the slightest, since my children (or at least certainly my grandchildren) will someday be asking "Daddy, what was a public library?".

The internet, and projects like the one Google is participating in, which scan thousands of books from library shelves, will ultimately make libraries obsolete. This is even the case with college librarys. I can say this first hand as a graduate student. Almost every scholarly paper printed after the early 1990s is available online (some require a subscription, but they are there) and many older ones are being added.

As smaller and smaller laptop computers become availabe, and wireless internet growth continues, there will be no further need for libraries, and their assosiated communist librarians.

[freekitty]

Read "The Marketing of Evil". It will explain how they are playing this game with you.

[marktwain]

They also say nothing about books that truly are banned by a combination of court rulings and lawsuits.

Only a few years ago, you could buy numerous books on how to make explosives and improvised weapons. Books on the home manufacture of firearms and ammunition.

Those books, which were almost *never* found in libraries have now been effectively banned. You can not buy them, even mail order, because the Supreme Court has ruled that the book publisher can be sued if any one commits a crime that in some way relates to the material in the book.

Of course, such books had been banned in all *progressive* countries, such as Canada, for a long time.

[FlingWingFlyer]

Until these Liberal pinheads put Mark Twain back on the shelves of our school liberaries, they need to just STFU. I don't want to hear all this whining about queer books.

[Question_Assumptions]

Is "Unfit for Command" on their list of banned books, given the efforts leftist make to hide and bury it?

[patj]

My local library has this display. I asked the librarian why these books were banned. She had no idea. Called over a co-worker, and then another, of the 3 they didn't have a clue as to why the books were banned. They did manage to mutter that some were banned by religious groups.

[KosmicKitty]

Wonder what would happen if I donated bibles to my local school's library??

Had a teacher in High School say that the most open environment she ever taught in was a Catholic Girls High School. I was not surprised. Public schools are pretty repressive environemnts

[LiteKeeper]

INTREP

[onja]

On the 100 most challenged books they had a few stupid/annoying ones.

Huckleberry Finn, The Giver, Where's Waldo(How is he bad?), Bridge To Terebithia, Wrinkle in Time, The Witches, To Kill a Mockingbird and Tom Sawyer. I love all these books.