About Uncle Bobby: In Uncle Bobby’s Wedding a niece worries that her uncle’s upcoming wedding will change her relationship with him. P.S. The characters are guinea pigs. P.P.S. Uncle Bobby is gay. One Colorado library patron wrote the local paper to say the children’s picture book was a “slap in [her] face” and urged other moms to call the governor to have the book removed from the library’s general circulation. Librarian Jamie LaRue’s response, in the form of a thoughtful letter published on his blog, could stand as a template response for librarians dealing with censorship attempts. Read it here.

fREADom too: USA Today reports that “Congress is considering a bill that would bar children who use computers in public libraries from accessing Facebook and other social networking websites without parental permission.” The American Library Association — which is holding its convention now in Anaheim — warns against it as “another attempt by the federal government to interfere with library users’ privacy and free speech.” An Association representative told the paper: “If people in a community do not feel confident that their privacy will be protected, they cannot use the library as it was intended, for intellectual pursuit. It will intimidate them.”

IF U CN RD THS MSG: The NYT asks, “Online, R U Really Reading?”

Tragilarious: notthelatimes.com