Why Being a School Librarian Sucks
There's a reason I chose academic librarianship. School librarianship is definitely a calling. The following article appeared in the July 22nd issue of the online Christian publication AgapePress.
"'Arkansas Parents Uncover Volumes of Vile Literature in School Libraries' By Jim Brown July 22, 2005 (AgapePress) - An Arkansas mother who succeeded in getting three sexually explicit books removed from Fayetteville school libraries says she has found there are more than a hundred books of that nature in the school district. Now a mental health counselor is recommending a parental audit of all the books in the city's school libraries. . . . 'The majority of these ... are fiction books,' the Arkansas mom notes, 'so there's no educational value in them outside of the fact that they're literary -- and I hesitate when I say "works" -- but they're literary works that have been put into our library system to, in my opinion, desensitize and indoctrinate our kids to thinking that sex with whoever, whenever, whatever you want to is okay.' . . ."
The entire article can be found at http://headlines.agapepress.org/archive/7/222005a.asp. For a real treat, click on the WPAAG link to the titles of some of these shocking, pornographic books, including Love in the Time of Cholera and Beloved. I love the fact that the "titillating" excerpt from Alice Sebold's Lucky is a RAPE SCENE. I'm assuming that no one bothered to read the excerpt, much less the book.