Library Books Survive Criticism for Content
The Hunger Games is third on the Top 10 list for 2011. The book has been criticized for being anti-ethnic, anti-family and insensitive and for its offensive language, occult/satanic message and incidents of violence.
The American Library Association (ALA) has released its annual list of the most frequently challenged library books of the year. The list is part of the ALA’s 2012 State of America’s Libraries Report, released April 9 in conjunction with National Library Week (April 8 – 14). The report included a a statement that publishers are limiting library e-book lending. According to the report, the rapid growth of e-books has stimulated increasing demand for them in libraries, but libraries only have limited access to e-books because of restrictions placed on their use by publishers. Macmillan Publishing, Simon and Schuster and Hachette Book Group refused to sell e-books to libraries. HarperCollins imposed an arbitrary 26 loans per e-book license, …
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9:25 am on Thursday, April 12, 2012
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