Originally posted by Benevolent Heretic
Everything by JK Rowling
Originally posted by FlyersFan
- The link between firing the librarian and the librarian refusing to 'ban books' is questionable. There was a time lapse. It may be .. but it also may not be. It's hard to tell.
In December 1996, Emmons told her hometown newspaper, the Frontiersman, that Palin three times asked her -- starting before she was sworn in -- about possibly removing objectionable books from the library if the need arose.
Emmons told the Frontiersman she flatly refused to consider any kind of censorship.
When the matter came up for the second time in October 1996, during a City Council meeting, Anne Kilkenny, a Wasilla housewife who often attends council meetings, was there.
Like many Alaskans, Kilkenny calls the governor by her first name.
"Sarah said to Mary Ellen, 'What would your response be if I asked you to remove some books from the collection?" Kilkenny said.
"I was shocked. Mary Ellen sat up straight and said something along the line of, 'The books in the Wasilla Library collection were selected on the basis of national selection criteria for libraries of this size, and I would absolutely resist all efforts to ban books.'"
Palin didn't mention specific books at that meeting, Kilkenny said.
Palin herself, questioned at the time, called her inquiries rhetorical and simply part of a policy discussion with a department head "about understanding and following administration agendas," according to the Frontiersman article.
Four days before the exchange at the City Council, Emmons got a letter from Palin asking for her resignation. Similar letters went to police chief Irl Stambaugh, public works director Jack Felton and finance director Duane Dvorak. John Cooper, a fifth director, resigned after Palin eliminated his job overseeing the city museum...
Originally posted by Benevolent Heretic
Here are the books:
For Inappropriate language
A Wrinkle in Time
Brave New World
Catch 22
Anything by Stephen King
Everything by JK Rowling
Most of Shakespeare
Webster’s 9th New Collegiate Dictionary.
This is according to a PODcast made by a woman who read the Time Magazine story. She says the librarian's name was Mary Ellen Baker, who was actually fired by Palin, but then was given her job back under public outcry.
Originally posted by FlyersFan
Originally posted by Benevolent Heretic
Everything by JK Rowling
If Gov. (then Mayor) Palin supposedly tried to ban JK Rowling in 1996 that would be a miracle - since most of Rowlings work didn't even start to come out until at least 1997 .
Edited immediately to add link.
[edit on 9/6/2008 by FlyersFan]
Originally posted by Benevolent Heretic
This is according to a PODcast made by a woman who read the Time Magazine story.
Originally posted by TheComte
If I were a betting man I'd guess it was the Harry Potters for their witchcraft and occultism.
This library holds censorship to be a purely individual matter and declares that – while anyone is free to reject for himself books and other materials of which he does not approve – he cannot exercise this right of censorship to restrict the freedom of others.”
