2011 Date Item Description Summary Of

Materials Review Committee Reconsideration of Materials Summary – 2011

Date Item Description Summary of Customer Findings and Action Taken Comments Mar How Israel Lost: The  Anti-Semitic  The author is a Pulitzer-prize-winning journalist who has 2011 Four Questions  Remove from written extensively about the Middle East. collection  He is critical of Israeli policy but as a serious and well-known Written by Richard Ben journalist, brings an important perspective to the issue. Cramer, Simon &  The Library’s extensive collection of material on the conflict in Schuster, 2004 the Middle East includes a variety of points of view. Adult Book  Retained in the adult collection

Aug Hooray for Dairy  Inaccurate content  The author implies that calves stay with their mother for six 2011 Farming  Remove from weeks but, according to Canadian dairy farming guidelines, this collection is not current practice. Written by Bobbie  The information in the book, written in 1997, is outdated and Kalman, Crabtree more recent books are available in the collection. Publishing Company,  Withdrawn from the collection 1997 Children’s book Nov What’s Up: Balloon to  Movie is offensive and  This animated film does contain negative stereotypes. 2011 the Rescue racist  It is designed to be misleading by resembling Pixar’s Up and the  No cultural or artistic company that produced it, Video Brinquedo, is known for Directed by Everton reasons for retaining producing low quality films based on other well-known films. It Rodrigues, 2009 was acquired in error. Children’s DVD  The Library does not own and will not buy other titles produced by Video Brinquedo.  Withdrawn from the collection

Date Item Description Summary of Customer Findings and Action Taken Comments Nov The Aristocrats  Movie is degrading and  This documentary style film features well-known comedians 2011 inappropriate for the such as Robin Williams and Whoopi Goldberg. Created by Penn Jillette library  It was positively reviewed in the Toronto Star, the Globe & and Paul Provenza,  Remove or apply Mail and the New York Times and was shown in North directed by Paul warning label American theatres. Provenza, 2006  Many North American public libraries own the film. Adult DVD  Its restricted rating means that no-one under 18 can borrow it (Restricted) and the cover has comments warning customers about its contents.  Retained in the adult collection