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Does anyone know what the policy is for pulling books from a library? No, I'm not wondering about banning books and censorship, although that would've been appropriate since last month was Banned Books Month. Or maybe it was just Banned Books Week? Anyway, I'm wondering about a library's obligation to pull a book from circulation once that book has been pulled from shelves by publishers due to a plagiarism accusation. I noticed today that my local library still has Kaavya Viswanathan's How Opal Mehta Got Kissed, Got Wild and Got a Life (which I reviewed here) circulating, even though the publisher has pulled it's support of the book amid allegations of plagiarism from Megan McCafferty's books, Sloppy Firsts and Second Helpings, along with Tanuja Desai Hidier's Born Confused. I asked at the circulation desk about it, but the woman looked at me like I had two heads, so I'm wondering if they have any kind of policy at all. Any librarians who wander across my blog -- does your library have a plagiarism policy?