Suspect it is rubbish but there are good health and safety grounds for putting on a higher shelf. Bibles are quite heavy and I wouldn't want elderly people bending down to the bottom shelf to pick them up. I'm (half) joking.
Ian Clark
Library Systems Officer,
Augustine House,
Canterbury Christ Church University
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From: MARTYN EVERETT [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
Sent: 21 October 2011 13:20
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Subject: Urban myth?
Peter Mullen claims in the Daily Mail "Public libraries have been instructed to place Bibles on the highest shelf – as if they were some sort of pornography likely to deprave and corrupt."
Has anyone on this list heard of such an instruction? Or suggest the origin of this claim? Or is it another urban myth?
Martyn
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