“I have heard some horror stories.”

—  Judith Krug

Referring to an incident in which an adult asked a librarian for a filter to be turned off and was told that the request had to go to a committee that would not meet for another two weeks
" Goodbye, Orlando? http://www.libraryjournal.com/article/CA443907.html" by John Berry et al., Library Journal (August 15, 2004)

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