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St. Tammany Parish Ejects R, NC-17 VideosComplying with a September 15 order by the St. Tammany Parish Library Board of Control, staffers of the Covington, Louisiana system have pulled from all 11 facilities every R- and NC-17-rated video held there. Trustees ordered the removal pending an October 20 meeting at which they plan to decide whether to incorporate the ban into library policy. Among the 354 titles currently banned from STPL's collection of 12,044 movies are My Left Foot (which won the 1989 Academy Award for Best Picture), Mississippi Burning, and In the Line of Fire, the New Orleans Times-Picayune reported September 17. "It doesn't have anything to do with censorship," trustee Richard Hart said, characterizing his proposal as a common-sense solution to allowing youngsters access to MPAA-restricted materials without their parents' consent. "If you go to a movie theater, there are rules." In the meantime, librarians are offering a philosophical counterpoint to their patrons that comes straight off the Internet: printouts of ALA's Library Bill of Rights, according to a September 21 Times-Picayune story. Posted October 5, 1998. |
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