28,537 Scrotum Hits on Technorati

Posted by Surrural Librarian on Feb 25 2007 | Library Image, Novels, Public Radio

I wasn’t planning on mentioning the Higher Power of Lucky broohaha. What more is there to say? Puh-lease.

But when my favorite Saturday radio show had a good laugh at librarians’ expense yesterday, I did just want to hide under the rug. For every rant about the “stereotypes” of librarians just not fitting anymore, there’s a ridiculous librarian out there making a bad name for us all.

Fortunately, a little sunshine was brought to my day by Neil Gamain with this lovely & helpful post on his blog…

An Absence of Scrota — your guide to quality literature…

I’ve decided that librarians who would decline to have a Newbery book in their libraries because they don’t like the word scrotum are probably not real librarians (whom I still love unconditionally). I think they’re rogue librarians who have gone over to the dark side.
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Helpfully, over at http://www.gelfmagazine.com/gelflog/archives/youth_literature_is_filled_with_scrotums.php you will find a list of books for the young, probably already in the libraries, with scrota (or even scrotums) in them. This is probably provided for rogue librarians who now need to hunt these books down and remove them, scrotums and all.

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One Response to “28,537 Scrotum Hits on Technorati”

  1. # Kate

    Thanks Pam! I thought about writing a letter to that Saturday radio show, but I couldn’t find sufficiently persuasive words. I will just have to be soothed by Neil Gaiman’s more astute observation.

    Gail Gauthier’s blog “Original Content” had a link to a Canadian view of “Scrotumgate” at http://www.thestar.com/article/184744.

    28 Feb 2007 at 9:54 am

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