<div dir="ltr">I recognise that I'm a very young librarian...but that book was published before I was born. 😬 Since it's older than I am, if a staff member wants to get rid of it, I probably won't fight them too hard, but I'd definitely replace it with something more recent.</div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Thu, May 16, 2019 at 1:41 PM Lorna Code via AISLE <<a href="mailto:aisle@list.railslibraries.info">aisle@list.railslibraries.info</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr">The difference I see here between TKM and this book is that the child will be reading it at a young age with no teacher commentary or guidance while TKM is most often read as a class under the direction of the teacher. <br clear="all"><div><div dir="ltr" class="gmail-m_8508974966951580956gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><font face="comic sans ms,sans-serif">Lorna Code</font><div>Library Information Specialist</div><div>Kaneland High School</div><div>Junior and Senior Class Advisor</div><div>(630) 365-5100 X71221</div><div><a href="mailto:lorna.code@kaneland.org" target="_blank">lorna.code@kaneland.org</a></div><div><br></div><div><span><p style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><font color="#000000" face="Merriweather, Georgia, serif"><span style="font-style:italic;font-size:14px">"Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere." - </span><font size="1">Martin Luther King, Jr.</font></font></p></span><div style="display:block"><p style="font-style:italic"><font color="#a64d79"><i style="font-size:12.8px"></i><br></font></p><p style="font-style:italic"><br></p><p style="font-style:italic"><br></p></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div><br></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Thu, May 16, 2019 at 1:29 PM Christine Wilson via AISLE <<a href="mailto:aisle@list.railslibraries.info" target="_blank">aisle@list.railslibraries.info</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div><div class="gmail-m_8508974966951580956gmail-m_2280432393860492465ydpa486fb70yahoo-style-wrap" style="font-family:"Helvetica Neue",Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:16px"><div><div>This is why <i>To Kill a Mockingbird</i> is challenged in so many schools. It's throwing the baby out with the bathwater.</div><div><br></div><div>As Kristen Rademacher noted above, "<span><span style="font-family:"Helvetica Neue",Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:14.6667px">If we erase the harm done and the ways in which that harm was caused, we can’t fix it." Even worse, if we erase it, we're bound to repeat it.</span></span></div><div><span><span style="font-family:"Helvetica Neue",Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:14.6667px"><br></span></span></div><div><span><span style="font-family:"Helvetica Neue",Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:14.6667px">I think the suggestion that leaving it and also including a newer title is a good one.</span></span></div><div><br></div><div class="gmail-m_8508974966951580956gmail-m_2280432393860492465ydpa486fb70signature"><p style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-size:small;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><span style="font-family:"lucida console",sans-serif">Christine Wilson</span></p><p style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-size:small;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><span style="font-family:"lucida console",sans-serif">847.727.6743</span></p><p style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-size:small;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><span style="font-family:"lucida console",sans-serif"><br></span></p><p style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-size:small;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><span style="font-family:"lucida console",sans-serif">'Who needs a librarian when you have Google? Well, who needs a doctor when you have WebMD?'</span></p><p style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-size:small;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><span style="font-family:"lucida console",sans-serif">Gwyneth Jones, The Daring Librarian.com</span></p></div></div>
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