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Originally Posted by Hamlet53
Yes banned is not the correct word. Fortunately, as I stated in an earlier post here, it is very difficult to ban a book in the US in the meaning of preventing publication or distribution. Anything classified as pornography being the exception. However, in say a small rural community like the one I live in if some local activist group (a church group maybe) is successful in getting a book removed from school use and the public library it is effectively “banned” in that access to the book depends on even knowing that it exists and being able to obtain it.
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Originally Posted by DiapDealer
I'm fine with the ALA keeping track of the challenges. Remember, this isn't a case someone simply "not liking" a book. These are cases where someone took the official "first step" in trying to keep other people from liking a book by having it removed from a library system. Just because they weren't successful doesn't mean it's not noteworthy.
If I were packing up and relocating a young family, I would certainly want to know if I was moving to a community that had an abundance of jerk-wads who were making numerous efforts to bring their library more "into compliance" with their religious or political ideals. Waiting until someone successfully gets a book banned is a little late to bring it to everyone's attention, is it not?
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That's just my point really. I can't seem to find anything about the book successfully being removed from any library.
So some crackpots have complained about it but the general community/libraries have basically replied "tough shit the book stays".
I'm at a loss as to why so many seem to think that if we give people the right to complain about a book they don't like this automatically means the government is going to start down the road of censoring everything we get to read.