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A librarian in Dublin showed me their locked cabinet of banned books and one title threw me
Last month I visited a small library in Dublin and the head librarian pulled out a locked cabinet of books that were once banned in Ireland, including a 1929 copy of Radclyffe Hall's The Well of Loneliness that had a court stamp inside and a card saying it was pulled from shelves in 1930. She pointed at the stamp and said the book was not destroyed, just kept behind a desk for 30 years until a new librarian fought to put it back. What's the strangest mark or note you've found inside a censored book that told you its history?
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blake30217d ago
Found a stamp in an old copy of Ulysses that said "released 1966" with a librarian's initials next to it. Seems like these quiet acts of keeping books alive happened way more than people realize, someone always fighting to get them back on the shelf.
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