group meeting & new ideas

We met with our controversial issues group tonight in Teleplace. Collectively, we decided we could get organized a little better if we met face to face but we couldn't work out a time yet to do that. Instead, we decided that our project has been stuck in the research phase and we need to move more toward organizing our information so that we can progress. I feel like we've just been spinning our wheels.
We also talked about an idea I had. I have started reading ONCE A WITCH, which I found out about through my Selection Tools Project. It was one of VOYA's Top Shelf Fiction picks for 2009 so it is a relatively new and unknown title. Because it is an adolescent novel about a family of witches, I thought it has the potential of garnering future challenges. So I proposed the idea to the group that I read the book with the purpose of seeking out aspects of the book that could possibly become challenged. It would be important to be familiar with other challenges based on witchcraft that have already occurred to read a text with that in mind. It is the type of thing that a librarian would face--a new book and a challenge on that book that has not had the benefit of lots of reviews and exposure. I thought it would be a good experience and might become something useful for our project. We shall see.