Posted in Nerve, librarians, libraries on May 22nd, 2007
(Photo by Tina Cheng, Arizona State University;
AALL “A Day in the Life of the Law Library Community“)
Carnival-ettes,
Calling all librarians!
I am currently interning for the sex and pop culture magazine Nerve.com, and looking for the librarian folk amongst you who would be willing to be interviewed.
The interview would be for “Sex Advice From,” a popular series [...]
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Posted in libraries on May 8th, 2007
VIENNA, Austria (AP) - This isn’t the typical whispering you might expect to hear at a library. Vienna’s City Hall has launched a “sex hotline” to raise money for the capital’s main public library, officials said Tuesday.
It’s unusual, but it’s not particularly raunchy: Callers pay 53 U.S. cents a minute to listen to [...]
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Posted in gay, history, libraries, new york on May 1st, 2007
A major archive of papers relating to the early gay-rights movement in America has been donated to the New York Public Library’s Manuscripts and Archives Division. The Barbara Gittings and Kay Tobin Lahusen Gay History Papers and Photographs consist of letters, photographs, handbills, manuscripts, publications, and ephemera accumulated over nearly 50 years by the late [...]
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Posted in censorship, law, libraries, obscenity on Apr 23rd, 2007
A Bentonville, AK resident is suing for trauma allegedly caused when his two sons stumbled across a sex guide book shelved with the military books at the library:
A Bentonville man asked the city to pay his two sons $20,000 and to fire the library director for including what he called “pornography” in the Bentonville Public [...]
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Posted in librarians, libraries, scrotum on Feb 23rd, 2007
The Higher Power of Lucky (Amazon)
scrotum! (libarian.net)
Youth Literature is Filled with Scrotums (Gelf Magazine)
My Final Word on ‘That Scrotum Book’, Including How to Lobby Your Library to Carry ‘The Higher Power of Lucky’ If You Don’t Have Time to Write a Letter
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