[LIS-Forum] Australian Library Employee Jokes About Moving Lance Armstrong Books to Fiction Section

Jayadev P Hiremath jayadevph at gmail.com
Tue Jan 22 23:14:54 IST 2013


By Sonia van Gilder Cooke  Time

This past Saturday, an employee at an Australian library put up a sign
announcing that its Lance Armstrong books would be relocated to the
fiction section, after the famous cyclist admitted to doping on his
way to seven Tour de France victories. The sign in the Manly Library,
located in a suburb of Sydney, said:

“ALL NON-FICTION LANCE ARMSTRONG BOOKS, INCLUDING ‘Lance Armstrong:
Images of a Champion’, ‘The Lance Armstrong Performance Program’ and
‘Lance Armstrong: World’s Greatest Champion’ WILL SOON BE MOVED TO THE
FICTION SECTION. THANK YOU, MANLY LIBRARY”

Several patrons snapped pictures of the tongue-in-cheek message, which
concludes with a smiley face, and posted them to Twitter and Reddit.
The sign quickly went viral. The employee who created it isn’t exactly
being praised for his creativity, however. “There will be an internal
review with the person who put the signage up,” Wendy Ford, the acting
manager of the Manly Library told the Sydney Morning Herald. “He
didn’t have any authority to make a statement on behalf of the
library.”

Ford said the sign was put up “as a bit of a joke” by a college
student who works occasional shifts. “He didn’t mean it to be
offensive in any way,” she said. “He just thought it was something
that would be humorous and didn’t for one minute think it would be as
big as it is. He is very contrite.” When Sydney Morning Herald asked
whether the prankster would be punished in any way, Ford said it was
unlikely. “We’re hoping it does just blow over.”


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Jayadev P Hiremath
Independent Libraries Professional
(Former Librarian - IBS,Kuwait)
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