Saturday, February 6, 2010

Can you guess the book? giveaway

So I have read many blogs these past few days that have been having giveaways. I decided to have on myself. The prize is described at the end.

This semester, I am taking a class about providing Reference Services to patrons. Yes, I know you all wish you were taking this class too!!! The other night we were talking about interacting with patrons and answering their requests, especially concerning removing books that some patrons think are unsuitable for public viewing. My professor worked for the Orland public libraries for many years and told us an occasion where a woman came up to him at the reference desk and asked that the library remove this certain book for all the public libraries. She said she thought the book was "evil" and "dangerous" and that she did not want her children or other children to be able to read it. My professor relayed her request to the proper people, but they decided not to remove the book.

This woman would not let the issue go. She kept pushing for the libraries to remove all copies of this book because it was again "evil." When the libraries would not budge, she checked out all 180 copies and refused to return them. As the books were property of the county, they sent a sheriff to her house to get all the copies back. This was back in like 2000. Can you guess the book? I will give you some hints, it is a book for children, young adults and even adults enjoy reading this book. It is part of a series and I love this book! Many of you have read it too. First to get it right and you will win something from Mike's Pastry, this italian pastry shop. It will be anything of your choosing, which I will send to you. And you can guess up to three times.

6 comments:

Laurel said...

I think it's Harry Potter!

That's the only recent series that I would think people would recently think is 'evil'. :D

Andrea said...

Laurel took my guess! :)

Janae and Topher said...

Laurel, you got it right. It was Harry Potter. Just let me know what you want!

Jessica Mangelson said...

Wow Laurel - great guess!

Laurel said...

SWEET!

Laurel said...

Okay, since I am on a diet (!) I have decided to withdraw my entry from the giveaway, since I can't really enjoy the yummy goodies anyway! :) So Janae, you need to pick a new winner!

:) :) :)