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The response to our Worst Pickup Lines contest has been overwhelming — the dudes (and ladies) of the world have some seriously bizarro game. After the jump, the winners of our fabulous prizes, and eight teeth-licking, ass-smelling, incest-porn-discussing honorable mentions. More »
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Lady Gaga + Librarians= "Catalog," the best library-related jam since Arthur dropped some rhymes on the dopeness of library cards. The editing is slightly off, but it just adds to the sweet, goofy, homemade charm of the video. [BoingBoing] More »
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Tina Harden had issues with the content of the novels and says she "achieved" "a certain amount of good" in holding the books as "a statement." She hasn't paid the $85 in fines she owes, however. [UPI, Earlier] More »
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Tina Harden saw references to weed and sex and decided the books were "filled with everything I don't want my [then 13-year-old] daughter to do or be." So… Do all 5th graders become pickpockets after reading Oliver Twist? [Orlando Sentinel] More »
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In 1992, Will Manley commissioned a sex survey of 5,000 librarians. The results were allegedly deemed so scandalous that not only was Manley fired, but the Wilson Library Bulletin destroyed any remaining copies. Now, Manley has released them: More »
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Meet Beth Hollis, a 53-year-old reference librarian from Ohio who leads a double life as the kick-ass roller derby player MegaBeth, "which is kind of a play on MegaDeath... I like the Mega too, it insinuates power." [CNN] More »
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So what do libraries do when a book like Tintin in the Congo is deemed too offensive for normal perusal? According to a piece in today's Times, a sort of semi-banned purgatory. More »
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"Where do we assemble? Who has the lube?" Just one of the charming tweets on the American Library Association's annual conference's "secret" Twitter account, created to monitor scandalous goings-on. [Washington City Paper] More »
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As mentioned briefly last night, Judith Krug, the founder of Banned Book Week and champion of the First Amendment, died Saturday in Evanston, Illinois. She was 69. More »
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By now you've probably read about Wasilla, Alaska librarian Mary Ellen Baker, who refused to ban "inappropriate books" at then-mayor Sarah Palin's request, despite the risk of losing her job. But in case you weren't feeling impressed enough with librarians, Mother Jones has a fascinating story — banned books week begins on September 26, people! — about another badass librarian (actually, a few of them). More »
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Once again, librarians save the day! As reported last week, a reproductive health database run by John Hopkins University called POPLINE had removed the term "abortion" as a recognized search query in February. The change had gone unnoticed until a group of librarians at the Medical Center at UCSF had trouble gaining access to articles and brought it to the attention of the librarian community and then news outlets. The term has since been restored as a recognized search term within the database. As one librarian put it: it was silly to ignore searches using "a perfectly good noun such as 'abortion.'" [NYT & Our Bodies Our Blog] More »
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Remember the big brouhaha over the Newbery Medal-winning, "scrotum"-plugging children's book The Higher Power of Lucky? Well there's a new controversy among suddenly publicity-hungry American librarians, but this one's over boobalicious Beyonce Knowles. More »
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