Tuesday, August 24, 2010

"Revolutionary Voices": A Not-so-Sweet Decision

It's outta here!

Link to August 5 (Cherry Hill, NJ) Courier-Post article, "Second library removes gay book".  (via Library Link of the Day.)

Excerpt: A gay-themed book, which was pulled from a local high school's library after a resident objected to its content, has also been yanked from Burlington County's library system.

The county system's decision to remove "Revolutionary Voices," an anthology of first-person works by gay youths, was made quietly in the spring. But it's now stirring an online furor with the release of e-mails on the issue by the county's library director, Gail Sweet.

"How can we grab the books so that they never, ever get back into circulation?" Sweet asked in one e-mail to a library employee. "Copies need to totally disappear (as in not a good idea to send copies to the book sale)."

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