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| Australian library's Lance Armstrong 'fiction' notice revealed as a hoax | Australian library's Lance Armstrong 'fiction' notice revealed as a hoax |
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| A sign telling users of an Australian library that books written by the disgraced cyclist Lance Armstrong would be moved to the fiction section has been revealed as a joke. | A sign telling users of an Australian library that books written by the disgraced cyclist Lance Armstrong would be moved to the fiction section has been revealed as a joke. |
| The sign at Sydney's Manly library, a photo of which went viral on the internet, read: "All non-fiction Lance Armstrong Books, including Lance Armstrong - Images of a Champion, The Lance Armstrong Performance Program and Lance Armstrong: World's Greatest Champion, will soon be moved to the fiction section." | The sign at Sydney's Manly library, a photo of which went viral on the internet, read: "All non-fiction Lance Armstrong Books, including Lance Armstrong - Images of a Champion, The Lance Armstrong Performance Program and Lance Armstrong: World's Greatest Champion, will soon be moved to the fiction section." |
| The note, which was placed in a plastic stand on a bookshelf in the library, sparked heated debate online over whether Armstrong's fight against cancer and motivation of people outweighed his drug cheating in a sport rife with doping. | The note, which was placed in a plastic stand on a bookshelf in the library, sparked heated debate online over whether Armstrong's fight against cancer and motivation of people outweighed his drug cheating in a sport rife with doping. |
| "As a cyclist the guy's work was inspiring, his foundation do amazing work and his story was great … You feel embarrassed for recommending his book to people, you stare at the books on the shelf questioning if the lessons and the inspiration is honest and real," said one commentator. Another declared: "Hell hath no fury like a librarian." | "As a cyclist the guy's work was inspiring, his foundation do amazing work and his story was great … You feel embarrassed for recommending his book to people, you stare at the books on the shelf questioning if the lessons and the inspiration is honest and real," said one commentator. Another declared: "Hell hath no fury like a librarian." |
| But Manly Library said the printed notice was a prank and that an internal review was under way. "Libraries can't arbitrarily reclassify categories of books, because that depends on the ISBN number that is issued by the National Library," a spokesman at Manly council, which runs the library, said. | But Manly Library said the printed notice was a prank and that an internal review was under way. "Libraries can't arbitrarily reclassify categories of books, because that depends on the ISBN number that is issued by the National Library," a spokesman at Manly council, which runs the library, said. |
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