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Jun 22 2007

Support for Public Library Book Banning

Posted by: Emily in Etc.

The Pew Research Center’s “Number of the Day” today lists The number of people who support banning books with “dangerous ideas”: 46%. Link
What is shocking to me is that this is the lowes level of support for book banning in the last 20 years.

46% still seems a little high to me.

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The Invisible Library » Blog Archive » Sorry, We Discarded Our Copy of the Necronomicon Back In 1986 says:
June 27th, 2007 at 8:02 pm
[…] albeit in the closed stacks, though pretty much anyone could get it if they just asked for it. A recent poll by the Pew Research Group confirms that a surprisingly large number of people actually think there are books that contain […]
Karin Dalziel says:
June 28th, 2007 at 10:54 am
This statistic is for public school libraries- so I can understand it. I wonder what it would be for public libraries?
your neighborhood librarian says:
July 9th, 2007 at 12:03 pm
I do selection for my son’s public school library. I cower in fear of the day when the Pentecostal and Jehovah’s Witness parents take a close look at my stacks. These are the people who insist their kids don’t get any exposure to things like Halloween and classroom birthday parties.

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