Librarians should celebrate Banned Books Week by showcasing all the really nasty, perverted sex books they buy for their libraries. You know, the raunchy, titillating ones. With the photographs.
Ask the readers: What is the nastiest book in your library?
Monday, September 27, 2010
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Gilbert's Eat, Pray, Love: One Woman's Search for Everything Across Italy, India and Indonesia
It's nasty for a different reason.
@Anon
I laughed so hard I spit tea out my nose.
@Anon, maybe you could use Eat, Pray, Love to sop that up before it ruins "the good books."
Note: haven't actually read EPL yet, but I'm willing to play along.
Hysteric Four : Femalien by Charlie White. Contains nude photos of a woman in alien costume. The oddest thing of all is that I work at a business library.
There's no such thing as nasty in a Health Sciences Library.
The Bible.
If patrons hadn't already cut all the pictures out, I'd say it was the Mapplethorpe coffeetable book.
@ Anon 12:56pm
oh yes, yes there is. have you checked out the glossy full-color photos of the dermatology textbooks?!?
"There's no such thing as nasty in a Health Sciences Library."
I've cataloged a few ophthalmology and I would beg to defer. (shudder)
I also work in a Medical Library and try always to avoid opening anything with the word 'dermatology' on it Ugh!
I run a sexual health library. You've just described all the books we have - which I use in displays all the time :)
My former library celebrated banned book week by placing famous banned books and challenged books in a glass display case for a month...ensuring no one checked them out.
Maisy Goes Swimming
Again, nasty for another reason... and I'm probably the only one that thinks so.
Something called "Hello Kitty Must Die"
PS: I worked in a medical libary for a short period of time. A children's medical library. The periodicals... oh the periodicals.
@Cool Young Librarian
Apparently you may not be the only one that thinks 'Maisy Goes Swimming' is nasty - all the copies available in our catalogue are REF and you can't place holds.
What's so bad about swimming Maisy???
At second glance, the general note added is kinda skeezy, but that could just be me.
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