Oregon law contained two sections that make it a crime to furnish children and teens with sexually explicit materials.  Yesterday the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruled the law was too broad.  The sections were deemed too far reaching and would block age-appropriate books instead of specifically hard-core pornography, which the state said was the intention.  The law could be applied to libraries and bookstores that provide sex education books and novels that contain sexually explicit material.

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As a librarian, don’t you just love a “teachable moment?” We all learned a major lesson  in library school—beware of internet sources.  The internet is a great place to find information, but it must be verified.  Well, apparently that’s a lesson Rush Limbaugh and his research staff recently learned.  The radio show was profiling Judge Roger Vinson.  The judge’s Wikipedia entry had false information in it which was reported on air according to the New York Times article here.   The judge took the incident in stride so there was no harm done and everyone learned a valuable lesson on source checking.