Update on KS Library CD Fracas

[Note: This entry has been updated, as the original posting of the KS Library Associations director's letter to the lists was an honest error by the original poster. As a professional courtesy, I'm simply summarizing and commenting on what I understand to be the general position of the KLA and others, which is that the Attorney General picked from a list provided to all the AG's involved in the suit, which was part of the settlement deal. My basic questions and comments (below) still remain.]

A follow-up to the post from Aug 7th about the KS library CD issue. According to some KS librarians, the Exec Director of the Kansas Library Association has clarified what was reported, basically saying that the reporter just skewed it for their own POV, which was to basically raise a censorship issue. Now, I know several librarians in Kansas, which is why I found the comments as they were originally reported to be rather unusual, and at odds with what I usually hear from our neighbors to the SW. I know many of them were not happy with how this got reported in the press, nor are any of the US libraries happy with the judgement which ended up dumping CD's on their libraries without any (?) input before the fact.

It's interesting to note that it was the KS Attorney General who made the decisions based on a list sent to AG's around the country. My question: I wonder if any of them bothered to contact even their state librarian for a rough idea of what might be acceptable? I'd be very curious to know.

[As this information was reported in the Associated Press, I will continue to reproduce it here.] This is a list of the CD's that were not selected:

Alice In Chains, "Greatest Hits," "Live"
Big Punisher, "Yeeeah Baby"
Blink 182, "Cheshire Cat"
Foxy Brown, "China Doll"
Concrete Blonde, "Bloodletting," "Classic Masters"
Cypress Hill, "III," "Live at the Fillmore"
Da Brat, "Unrestricted"
Devo, "Pioneers Who Got Scalped"
Heavy D, "Heavy"
Jagged Edge, "JE Heartbreak"
Live, "The Distance to Here"
Mas,e "Harlem World"
NAS, "It Was Written," "Nastradamas"
Nortious B.I.G., "Born Again"
OutKast, "Aquemini," "Stankonia"
Rage Against the Machine, "Renegades"
Lou Reed, "Growing Up in Public," "Rock and Roll
Heart,"
"Sally Can't Dance," "Walk on the Wild Side"
Silver Chair, "Freak Show"
Soul Asylum, "Candy From a Stranger," "Let Your
Dim
Light
Shine"
Stone Temple Pilots, "Tiny Lights: Songs From the
Vatican Gift
Shop"
Toadies, "Hell Below"
"Bad Boy Records Greatest Hits"
The Wu-Tang Clan, "The W"
Wyclef Jean, "The Carnival"
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Source: Documents obtained by The Associated Press from the Kansas Attorney General's Office.