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anger,hostility,andself-righteousness.More than 100residents packed into the large base-ment room of the Whiton Branch ofthe Manchester Public Library toattend the December Library Boardmeeting.The Library Board voted 4 to2 not to remove Madonna's latestcommercial venture from its shelves.  \nPaul McCary,library board chair,called for public participation beforethe vote.For two hours town residentsexpressed their concern that Sex didnot belong in a library,defined it aspornographic,and declared that thebook would bring undesirable peopleinto the library.Very few of thosecondemning the book had actuallyviewed it contents.An example ofstatements opposing the inclusion ofthis title were:“There is too muchfreedom in this country.\"\"This countryneeds to return to Judeo-Christianvalues.\"\"This book will make mychild immoral.\"\"Books like this leadto AIDS and teenage pregnancies.“\"This is an open door to filth.\"\"Itexploits women.\"\"It is a waste of taxdollars,\"and finally,a particularlyirate young woman declared,\"Thebook should be burned and thenburied.\"  \ncontinued on page6  \nJanuary 1993  \nBefore:The circulation desk is lost indisorganized clutter  \nAfter:The circulation desk becomes thefocal point of the library's serviceoperations  \nRenovation Transforms the Andover Library  \nMary Engels  \nThis month marks the completion ofone of the State Library's most excitingprojects—This Old Library.The con-cept of This Old Library was devel-oped by Susan Cormier,children'sservices consultant,who believed thatthe premise of public television's ThisOld House could be applied to a smalllibrary,transforming it into a model ofpublic library service for the state.  \nSusan received enthusiastic support forher idea from her colleagues in theDivision of Public and CooperativeLibrary Services and from the AdvisoryCouncil for Library Planning andDevelopment,which appropriated$23,000.The moneys were used for anLSCA Title l competitive grant programto select a library for makeover.Librar-ies in communities of less than 5000people were invited to apply;of thetwelve applicants the Andover PublicLibrary was chosen in the fall of 1991.  \nThe basic concept of This Old Libraryis a simple one.State Library staff(Pat  \nOwens,Susan Cormier,Mary LouiseJensen,Sharon Brettschneider,andMary Engels)would work with locallibrary staff,Friends,trustees,and ven-dors to improve the library's collec-tions,appearance,utilization of space,and ultimately,the services providedto its community.  \nAndover is an ideal community for thisproject in a number of ways.TheAndover library has tremendouscommunity support.Their Friendsgroup is extremely active and hasgarnered national publicity for thelibrary's No TV Week.The library'smajor limitation was a buildingconsisting of a beautiful but veryovercrowded single room.Staff andtrustees had completed a planningprocess which identified principalroles for the library,and the staff,ledby Director Tom Newman,was opento new ideas  \nThe project began in the fall of 1991with a major weeding of the collec-  \nDefending unworthy books like Sexendangers the public library'shigher mission.  \nI liked it much better when Madonna wasessentially relegated to the radio so l couldjust change the station when she struttedBill Uricchioher outrageous stuff.Now she's gone and  \ncreated a so-called book,which has thrown the publiclibrary world into a tizzy.The self-styled material girl'sexploitative,soft-core(borderline hard)pornographic epichas become the cause célebre of intellectual freedomzealots,who see in its tacky pages an opportunity to declarethat anyone who objects to a library buying this work of\"art\"is Anthony Comstock himself riz from the grave.  \nThe issue at hand is not Madonna or her sleazy attempt tomake more than a few bucks.It involves to which extentlibraries must be responsible to the com","cbCaijx8wtkMSRRv","https://ap.wps.com/l/cbCaijx8wtkMSRRv","pdf",2838182,"English","# Madonna’s book 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