Community college library picks up banned Manga

A book on the history of Manga removed from San Bernardino County libraries has found a home at the Barstow Community College library:

The book, "Manga: 60 Years of Japanese Comics," was ordered off the library shelves April 12 after complaints by First District county Supervisor Bill Postmus.

"Our feeling is that we would like to see the book returned to the shelves of the county libraries," Kyri Freeman, librarian at the Thomas M. Kimball Library at the college.

The book was yanked from the county library shelves after a 16-year-old Victorville boy told his mom that the book contained sexual illustrations.

Freeman said she and many librarians believe the book did not go through an appropriate process before it was banned.

"In effect, we feel it was an act of censorship and not appropriate," she said.