Apples, oranges. And not an established fact, either. According to a piece in the Anchorage paper, Palin asked about the procedure for removing books from the shelves (in response, I gathered from another source to some queries from some residents). I can only imagine the response she got from the librarian! That's neck and neck with "give me the borrowing records of this patron so I can hand them over to the FBI" as things calculated to send your average librarian ballistic.

Not reported in a lot of the uproar is that Palin did indeed dismiss several people who she felt weren't seeing eye to eye with her on various agendas, but later. The librarian was one, but according to the letter Palin wrote her rescinding the termination, the issue was Palin's desire to merge the library and museum functions. I can see this becoming an issue in a small town with budget problems -- indeed, I've known several library/museum hybrids here in Philadelphia that have divested themselves of either their library or their museum holdings, or streamlined both including merging staff.

I don't know what you saw in terms of a list, but there was one posted on an Obama campaign web site diary (by a lower level person, not the campaign itself). That list was bogus -- it included the Harry Potter books, not published until after the alleged incident, and apparently was actually someone's list of all the books that were banned, or suggested to be banned, at one time or another.