{"id":1971,"date":"2009-08-28T00:09:16","date_gmt":"2009-08-28T07:09:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/2009\/08\/tintin-dans-le-chambre-forte\/"},"modified":"2009-08-27T12:20:31","modified_gmt":"2009-08-27T19:20:31","slug":"tintin-dans-le-chambre-forte","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/2009\/08\/28\/tintin-dans-le-chambre-forte\/","title":{"rendered":"Tintin Dans Le Chambre Forte"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><a href=\"http:\/\/cityroom.blogs.nytimes.com\/2009\/08\/19\/a-librarys-approach-to-books-that-offend\/?hp\" target=\"_blank\">from The New York Times<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<h1>A Library\u2019s Approach to Books That Offend<\/h1>\n<address class=\"byline author vcard\" style=\"font-style: normal; color: #808080; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 1.1em; line-height: 1.2em; margin-top: 2px; margin-bottom: 2px\">By\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/cityroom.blogs.nytimes.com\/author\/alison-leigh-cowan\/\" class=\"url fn\" title=\"See all posts by Alison Leigh Cowan\" style=\"color: #004276; text-decoration: none; text-transform: uppercase\" target=\"_blank\">ALISON LEIGH COWAN<\/a><\/address>\n<p class=\"w480\" style=\"width: 480px; overflow-x: hidden; overflow-y: hidden; margin-bottom: 1em\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/graphics8.nytimes.com\/images\/2009\/08\/17\/nyregion\/tintin3.480.jpg\" alt=\"TinTin\" \/><span class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; line-height: 14px; color: #666666\">Ruby Washington\/The New York Times<\/span><br \/>\n<span class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; line-height: 14px; color: #666666\"><em>The vault-like room in the Brooklyn Public Library where \u201cTintin au Congo\u201d was reshelved after a patron took issue with the book.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p>The cartoonist Herg\u00e9 is popular again, as is his adventurous reporter\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.tintin.com\/index.html#home\/une.swf&amp;lang=uk\/\" style=\"color: #004276; text-decoration: underline\" target=\"_blank\">Tintin<\/a>, who will be featured in a Steven Spielberg movie due out in 2011.<\/p>\n<p>But if you go to the Brooklyn Public Library seeking a copy of \u201cTintin au Congo,\u201d Herg\u00e9\u2019s second book in a series, prepare to make an appointment and wait days to see the book.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s not for the public,\u201d a librarian in the children\u2019s room said this month when a patron asked to see it.<\/p>\n<p>The book, published\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/1999\/01\/08\/world\/kinshasa-journal-tintin-at-70-colonialism-s-comic-book-puppet.html\" style=\"color: #004276; text-decoration: underline\" target=\"_blank\">79 years ago<\/a>, was moved in 2007 from the public area of the library to a back room where it is held under lock and key.<\/p>\n<p>The move came after a patron objected, as others have, to the way Africans are depicted in the book. \u201cThe content is racially offensive to black people,\u2019\u2019 a librarian wrote on\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/documents.nytimes.com\/how-brooklyn-public-library-has-responded-to-book-challenges#p=13\" style=\"color: #004276; text-decoration: underline\" target=\"_blank\">Form 286, also known as a Request for Reconsideration of Library Material<\/a>\u00a0[pdf].<\/p>\n<p>[ <a href=\"http:\/\/cityroom.blogs.nytimes.com\/2009\/08\/19\/a-librarys-approach-to-books-that-offend\/?hp\" target=\"_blank\">click to continue reading at NYTimes.com<\/a> ]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>from The New York Times A Library\u2019s Approach to Books That Offend By\u00a0ALISON LEIGH COWAN Ruby Washington\/The New York Times The vault-like room in the Brooklyn Public Library where \u201cTintin au Congo\u201d was reshelved after a patron took issue with the book. 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