Arrangement of Words
posted by trawlerman at 4:40 PM
"If a thing is worth doing, it is worth doing badly." -G. K. Chesterton
When playing a game, the goal is to win, but it is the goal that is important, not the winning. âReiner Knizia
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“Libraries should challenge censorship in the fulfillment of their responsibility to provide information and enlightenment.”—
Article 3- Library Bill of Rights
Don't librarians engage in practical censorship every day in the books they choose to accept or reject to be housed in the library.
Do many librarians extreme "liberal" social activist biases not inform what books they allow to be read by their constituancy?
Yup.
Though it's not called "practical censorship." It's called "collection development."
The biases of the librarian in charge of collection development will definitely affect the overall collection. Nevertheless, any library with a sane manager will have a written collection development policy, for those instances when books are challenged (Concerned Parent: "I don't want my child to have to know about Heather's two mommies") or when other books are requested (Librarian: "Sorry, there is not enough widespread interest in the community to start buying homo-erotica").
Virtually every public library across this country is a member of the ALA, and, there is, without a doubt, a hard-core liberalism rampant in the library community. But there are still many (especially rural) libraries staffed by those who, even though members of the ALA, couldn't give a hooey about their stances or their bill of rights.
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If you send me $19.99 USD I'll ship next day air my custom-made decoder glasses to translate the above arrangement of words.
btw,
I think YOU drew this script just to get under my skin.
I'd like to continue this topic next week sometime. This week was over before it started.
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