Most of the movies were found hidden in the library, though Arnsman did not want to reveal specifically where the movies were hidden.
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Then, the new copies of the movie and older copies of the other movies in the trilogy went missing.Īdditional investigation by the library showed the movie Eyes Wide Shut and the documentary Jerusalem also were missing. The library bought new copies of the movie on DVD and Blu-ray to replace the missing movie. “This time they went missing and because of it happening a year before, we kind of had a feeling it was deliberate,” Arnsman said. The library bought a new copy of that movie and nothing else happened. A year ago, she said, the second of three Fifty Shades movies, Fifty Shades Darker, also went mysteriously missing. This is not how libraries work.”Īrnsman said the most recent Fifty Shades movie, Fifty Shades Freed, was noticed missing in mid-June. They deliberately hid all of these items so you wouldn’t find them. Someone didn’t want you to check these items out. To fight back against the self-anointed censor, the library is displaying the recently found missing movies with a sign that reads: “The Berkley Public Library is against censorship. If patrons want that, we have to provide that information, even if it is a feature film,” said Lauren Arnsman, a reference librarian at the library. You can’t pick and choose what you’re going to carry. “One of the tenets of being a library and being a librarian is access to all information. Someone has been hiding or removing the Berkley Public Library’s trilogy of Fifty Shades movies that depict consensual sexual bondage, as well as two other films on DVD. Reported in: Sioux City Journal, October 28 Des Moines Register, October 31. Orange City is the county seat of Sioux County, known as the most conservative county in the state. Since then, several GoFundMe pages and Facebook fundraisers have raised thousands of dollars for the library-much more than the roughly $50 needed to replace the burned books.ĭorr calls Rescue The Perishing a “crisis center and pro-life, pro-family movement.” He has declined to be interviewed and indicated that he will not pay any library fines or fees for the destroyed books. Pitman, and Families, Families, Families! by Suzanne and Max Lang, about nontraditional families. In his October video, Dorr reads a blog post titled “May God and the Homosexuals of OC Pride Please Forgive Us!” from his website, which he calls “Rescue The Perishing.” The video ends with Dorr burning Two Boys Kissing, a young adult novel by David Levithan Morris Micklewhite and the Tangerine Dress, a children’s book about a boy who likes to wear a tangerine dress, by Christine Baldacchino This Day In June, a picture book about a pride parade, by Gayle E. In response to the uproar, the library in March 2018 changed its classification system and opted to arrange books by subject and category instead of alphabetically by the author’s name. The library had faced criticism earlier this year, when members of the conservative, historically Dutch Reformed community spoke out against LGBTQ books held by the library. He burned the books in protest of the city’s second annual gay pride event. Religious activist Paul Dorr threw four library books into a burning trash can while streaming live on Facebook. More than 200 books have been donated to the Orange City Public Library in northwest Iowa after a man checked out-and then burned-four LGBTQ children’s books on October 19. The library invited the patron to provide titles that s/he would like to see, adding: “We are sorry you feel the need to hide books you don’t agree with since that takes up valuable time to reorder and replace lost titles.” Reported in: Spokane Spokesman-Review, September 27. The library posted the note on a bulletin board, along with a typed note from the library. Your liberal angst gives me great pleasure.” And I am going to continue hiding these books in the most obscure places I can find to keep this propaganda out of the hands of young minds. Librarian Bette Ammon fished this complaint from the suggestion box: “I noticed a large volume of books attacking our president.
Books that a patron judged to be critical of President Donald Trump disappeared from the shelves of the Coeur d’Alene Public Library.
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