Thread: Brooklyn Library restricts access to Tin Tin book
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Old 08-21-2009, 03:11 PM   #91
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Originally Posted by calvin-c View Post
There is? Are you saying that libraries are locking up/getting rid of books that are popular? Sorry-but I don't think that's the case. Yes, the complaints might help them decide that a book isn't popular-but that's been a problem with democracy since ancient Greece. (How do you know whether or not something is popular? You either take a poll or you compare the number of compliments to the number of complaints. Or you can take it away & see how many complaints you get about that. Sort of an ex post facto poll, I guess.)
If it received a "number" of complaints that is. I will point out again that in this case the article implies that it was done on the basis of a single complaint.

Any "post facto poll" however is going to be skewed by the press response now anyway.
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