{"id":6122,"date":"2013-01-09T10:56:01","date_gmt":"2013-01-09T18:56:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/forbiddenpanel.com\/PanelCast\/?p=6122"},"modified":"2013-01-09T10:56:01","modified_gmt":"2013-01-09T18:56:01","slug":"librarian-reverses-boards-decision-to-put-neonomicon-back-on-the-shelves","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/forbiddenpanel.com\/PanelCast\/librarian-reverses-boards-decision-to-put-neonomicon-back-on-the-shelves\/","title":{"rendered":"Librarian Reverses Board’s Decision To Put Neonomicon Back On The Shelves"},"content":{"rendered":"

Last year, Alan Moore and Jacen Burrows\u2018 Neonomicon was withdrawn from a library in Greenville after a teenage girl using an adult library card took it out and her mother strenuously objected.<\/p>\n

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Later the library board all read the graphic novel and voted for it to be returned to the shelves. End of? No.<\/p>\n

The Head Librarian reverted the board\u2019s decision to revert her decision and took the book back off the shelves again. Talking to local press, she said;<\/p>\n

\u201cIt was disgusting,\u201d she said, declining to label it obscene or pornographic.<\/p>\n

She acknowledged the library has many books that deal in such detail with the very same subject matter \u2014 racism, rape, murder, sex \u2014 but for her, the pictures gave her pause.<\/p>\n

Her decision to pull the book was the first time she had overruled her staff\u2019s recommendation and the fifth time she had removed material from the library after a complaint.<\/p>\n

\u201cI call it de-selection,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n

via Librarian Reverses Board’s Decision To Put Neonomicon Back On The Shelves – Bleeding Cool Comic Book, Movies and TV News and Rumors<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Last year, Alan Moore and Jacen Burrows\u2018 Neonomicon was withdrawn from a library in Greenville after a teenage girl using an adult library card took it out and her mother strenuously objected. Later the library board all read the graphic novel and voted for it to be returned to the shelves. End of? No. The […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"_wpas_customize_per_network":false},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6122","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1opIU-1AK","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":974,"url":"http:\/\/forbiddenpanel.com\/PanelCast\/episode-77\/","url_meta":{"origin":6122,"position":0},"title":"Episode #77","author":"AJ","date":"February 21, 2011","format":false,"excerpt":"In this long awaited episode, Bryan and I discuss a lot of news that we had missed in our\u00a0absence. 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