'Tis the season to receive political e-mails -- good, bad, and ugly. Save yourself from having to retract mistakes by remembering to check out what you receive before passing it along.
Snopes, Urban Legends, and others of their ilk are always a good starting points, but there are times you will receive things before they do. Case in point was a list of books Palin supposedly wanted banned that landed in my e-mail over the weekend. Only as of today did it appear as False on Snopes, but at the time of receipt, nothing.
In researching it, another very interesting post (Librarian No. 9.7.2008 No. 154) turned up in the biblioblogosphere and it references both a Librarians for Palin and a Librarians Against Palin site. The whole case makes some very interesting reading.
SUBJECTS: REFERENCE RICHES
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As a librarian in Central Florida, well the west coast of central Florida (who is happy to be hurricane free this week) I am pleased that you posted this.
The list was posted to among other sites, Jessamyn's librarian.net site. She has noted on her blog that it is not true, and she commented on Librarians for Palin that it was a prank.
Kind of silly if you ask me. One would think I librarian could do better than post titles that were not published when the list was said to have been promulgated.
That is why we know it was not a librarian who posted it, we have better reference skills. None of the 'books of the future' would have been on there.
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