Clayton, Jamie
Yorio Kara. (2018, May 9). When Cosby's 'Little Bill,’ Alexie and Asher are on the Shelf: What Should A Librarian Do? [Blog Post]. Retrieved from https://www.slj.com/2018/05/books-media/cosbys-little-bill-alexie-asher-shelf-librarian/#_
The #MeToo movement has brought forth a wide variety of opinions regarding what we do with books whose authors' personal behavior is immoral. This article weighs the moral ethics of removing these authors from our library shelves. Is it up to us to weed books off the shelves based on the content or the author? Should we pull books off the shelves for ethical reasons rather than being outdated or having low circulation? Would an athlete who was beating his wife get pulled even if he wasn’t convicted? Is it up to us to make that decision? Where is the line drawn? Kara Yorio provides some insight and asks the hard questions when moral issues of the author, not the story are at hand.
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