<div dir="ltr">I understand the comments about keeping it to maintain the history. However, following my weeding guidelines, that book would have been gone a few (or more) years ago based on copyright and the availability of newer materials on the subject. <div><br></div><div>I only have so much shelf space and, like someone mentioned earlier, my students are not checking out the old stuff. They also miss out on some of the new stuff when there's old stuff in the way. </div><div><br></div></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">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_-1305733679706218750ydpa486fb70yahoo-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_-1305733679706218750ydpa486fb70signature"><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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