Trash in the Library

Author
Publication year
1980
Journal
Library Journal
Volume
105.10
Pages
1138-1139
Comment

I do not urge dropping any of our literary standards, but do urge that librarians realize that for many in our community those standards are idealistic and practically unattainable. Let us instead practice a humanistic tolerance and allow our philosophy of literary esthetics to broaden and include in our public those of "lower" taste as well as those intellectual wastrels who prefer lazing in the backwaters of low quality literature. (1139)