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Tuesday, January 11th, 2005

Library board puts Jon Stewart’s book back on shelves

CNN.com – Library board puts Jon Stewart’s book back on shelves Looks like they had some sense after all.

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Sunday, January 9th, 2005

Some Miss. Libraries Ban Jon Stewart Book

First it was Wal-Mart, now libraries in Mississippi are banning America: The Book. Same reason as Wal-Mart too, naked Supreme Court justices. Wal-Mart can sell whatever they want, that’s their right. But libraries shouldn’t ban an entire book because of one page. And that’s exactly what Robert Willits, director of the Jackson-George Regional Library System [...]

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Monday, July 7th, 2003

Bless me father, I ate a lizard

Just thought I would post of few comments on one of my favorite books and the inspiration for the name Library Monk. Canticle tells the story of a post nuclear war world. People have turned against science and learning and life as reverted to a medieval existance. And as they did in the Middle Ages, [...]

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Written by Dan Greene, web and library geek. Topics covered here include Library and Information Science, Information Technology, web design, and maybe even a monk or two (more...)

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