Missed It: Brooklyn Library Restricts Access To Tintin In The Congo

The only thing that strikes me about this move is that I wonder if there isn't a step between having the book and its distressing, ugly portrayal of Africans on the shelves and totally unavailable unless you ask the librarians to see it via special access. I mean, it's been a long time since I was going to the kids room at the Muncie Public Library downtown branch, but it seems there were certain books that I had to have permission from my parents to access but I could still access them once I secured that permission, like a piece of yellow paper related to that book I had to take home and have signed? I don't know. Gotta be tough to be a librarian. This is probably where I should make a joke about A Separate Peace being kept out of the hands of children so as not to expose them to it sucking, but these stories drain the energy right out of me. I don't have an answer; I don't even have a clever stand.

As noted, this is the same book that Borders moved from the kids section to the adult section a couple of years back, causing a similar number of nervous looks and fingers being worked under collars in response.
 
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