WORKED SOURCE NOTE: WATER FOR ELEPHANTS
The Unhinged Librarian | Local tutorial | Checked October 25, 2026

QUESTION
What does the saved USBE statewide removal list record about Water for Elephants?

SOURCE
Utah State Board of Education, statewide removal list.
Original publisher download: https://usbe-my.sharepoint.com/personal/davina_sauthoff_schools_utah_gov/_layouts/15/download.aspx?share=EbrZ_-SSE5RMqDxBhGxrmCUB_U3991VFqWry09cvgWRBZg
Preserved original: usbe-statewide-removal-list-20260821.xlsx
Original capture: August 21, 2026, 20:26 UTC
SHA-256: ab8352af53fd02a7ddef1651ef208b21e8ee3a578b338982846e73216e85e142

PLACE TO LOOK
Worksheet Titles: A2 (scope note), A4:F4 (column headings), A22:F22 (book row).

WHAT IT SHOWS
A22: Water for Elephants
B22: Gruen, Sara [the source has a trailing space]
C22: Cache, Davis, Tooele
D22: blank
E22: 7-12 [the column describes where the title was located]
F22: May 5, 2025 [Date threshold met; Excel serial 45782]

FINDING
The state list saved on August 21, 2026 records May 5, 2025 as the date Water for Elephants met the statewide threshold. It names Cache, Davis, and Tooele in its district-removal column.

STILL TO CHECK
These cells do not supply an edition, individual district decision dates, or current availability. The grade-level column reports where the title was located, not the final scope of access. This row does not identify a cause or connect a video to a district action.

NEXT RECORD
For a question about one district, consult that district's actual decision and any later appeal or update. Additional district records exist in the research archive; they are outside this two-source teaching exercise.

RETRIEVAL STATUS
Canonical preserved bytes were rechecked for this lesson. The publisher link could not be fetched in the current web check, so current availability of that URL is unconfirmed.