My local library won't be stocking Graham Linehan's "Tough Crowd". Anyone else had the same response?

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I've been reading the ongoing discussion on Graham Linehan's book and decided to follow the suggestion within the thread and asked my local library about getting it into stock. I filled out the online form a couple of weeks ago.

Today I had a phone call from the library saying they were very sorry but wouldn't be adding it to their catalogue.

When asked why the response was "our supplier has given it a low rating". I asked for further clarification on what it was being rated as "low" on, the person on the phone didn't know but a low rating meant it wouldn't be being procured for the library.

I said I was aware the author had engaged with some controversial topics and was that the reason for the low rating? Again the person didn't know. I also asked for an example of a book with a high rating and again - don't know - the rating system is applied by the supplier not the library and the library uses the ratings as a guide.

I don't think the person on the phone was being obstructive, they evidently did not know the ins and outs of the rating system and how it was applied and were just passing on the information.

The supplier our library uses is Askews. I'm in a town with a population of 200,000 that has around 15 libraries and I've seen some of the crap they keep on the shelves. Why this is being declined I'm not sure,

Has anyone else come across this?

I’m on a very long waiting list for the book in my local library having asked them to get it in- that makes me very happy.

Would be interesting to see if the same libraries are also not stocking Material Girls, Trans, Hags, etc...

I got Tough Crowd for Christmas! It's really good! But will also ask for library to stock it, because.

My reservation came through in mid November after requesting it prepublication. My husband read it first and today was quoting a Triggernometry interview with Graham to me !

I first raised my GC concerns with him at the end of 2018 ( my route of education had been XO Jane, Meghan Murphy, Magdelen Berns, Kellie-Jay, certain bits of Kiwi Farms ) and he was a bit dismissive at first - ‘cant be that bad, it won’t go that far, it will all settle down, this is just a few odd bods’ and he has followed the institutional capture with horror.

I asked my local library to stock and they did...excited now because I cannot renew as someone else has now requested it!

It's arrived 🎉