From: "June Pinnell-Stephens" <jpstlib@451north.net>
Subject: FW: myliblog: Uncle Bobby's Wedding
Date: July 16th 2008

Greetings -

I recommend the letter on the blog listed below to everyone. It's an
extraordinary effort, useful for all of us in a library, pages through Board
members and politicians.

Cheers,

June


June Pinnell-Stephens
3140 Roden Lane
Fairbanks, AK 99709
907-479-5826




-----Original Message-----
From: Rick Ashton [mailto:rashton@urbanlibraries.org]
Sent: Tuesday, July 15, 2008 6:14 PM
To: Directors
Subject: FW: myliblog: Uncle Bobby's Wedding


Dear ULC Library Directors,

Jamie LaRue, Director of ULC member Douglas County Libraries (Castle Rock,
CO), has forwarded this item to me. Jamie is one of the most active,
thoughtful voices in the library world, writing a weekly column for his
local newspaper and blogging frequently about important library matters. I
found his forthright, generous letter to a concerned parent, linked below,
to be an interesting, useful statement of vital American principles. I
offer it for your consideration.

Best regards,

Rick Ashton



Quoting James LaRue <jlarue@jlarue.com>;:



*** http://jaslarue.blogspot.com/2008/07/uncle-bobbys-wedding.html ***


>
> My library is probably taking a mill levy increase to the voters this
> fall. Recently, a challenge to the book, "Uncle Bobby's Wedding" by
> Sarah S. Brannen, was rolled out (I believe) as part of a strategy to
> oppose a library funding increase.
>
> As noted in my blog, I think libraries will see MANY challenges to
> this title. I offer my analysis as a template to respond to those
> challenges.
>
> I'm copying as many opinion leaders as come readily to hand in my
> address book the opportunity to use the text in the attached link to
> alert their readers to both the likely challenge, and a response that
> (I believe) reframes the complaint in a way that better displays the
> contribution of our public libraries to our society.
>
> I hereby grant to all of you the right to publish with attribution but
> without payment this response.
>
>