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A Library’s Approach to Books That Offend

A Library’s Approach to Books That Offend by Alison Leigh Cowan in the New York Times, August 19, 2009. Everyone's afraid of books. Book banning from the PC Left and the values Right.
But if you go to the Brooklyn Public Library seeking a copy of "Tintin au Congo," Hergé’s second book in a series, prepare to make an appointment and wait days to see the book.

"It's not for the public," a librarian in the children’s room said this month when a patron asked to see it.

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