I thought that readers of the List would be interested to know that the
school employee in Kalispell who loaned the controversial materials was
not a professional librarian, and the books were not part of the high
school's collection, but rather from her personal collection.
Nevertheless, the Montana Library Association and our Intellectual
Freedom Committee has backed her up, and testified on her behalf at the
administrative hearing which was held a couple of weeks ago.
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Judy Meadows mtlawjm@class.org 406/444-3660 fax:444-3603
State Law Library of Montana Helena, Montana 59620
"Land of the Shining Mountains"
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On Thu, 7 Apr 1994 L10SLB1@MVS.CSO.NIU.EDU wrote:
> Fellow law-libbers:
> Did you all see the article in March 23, 1994 Chicago Daily Law
> Bulletin by Alice Hoffman?
> She says: "Books may well be the only true magic. A librarian is
> a conjurer of sorts, with access to some of the greatest mysteries,
> the novels, biographies and history books on the shelves."
> You see, a librarian was fired for "unsatisfactory performance" and
> "misconduct" when she lent materials on witchcraft to two seventh
> graders at the West Valley School of Kalispell, Mont.
>
> Just food for thought :)
> regards,
> --sandy
>
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