I wrote about Laura Mallory's attempt to have Harry Potter removed from Gwinnett County school libraries and classrooms in my October 6th posting. Thankfully, she struck out in her third pitch to have the series removed on the account that it establishes an official religion (the Wiccan faith).
On a discouraging note, the Manatee (FL) County library system will block access to MySpace and other social networking sites. While consistent with its current prohibition of email and chat rooms, the library board fails to see the useful dimensions of online discourse and community-building. Many without home access to computers and the internet will be shunned from imperative social interactions of the Information Age.
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