Posted in public library, tagged library policy, posters on June 18, 2008 | 1 Comment »
On 6 May, an e-mail from a Vancouver Public Library Director instructed all VPL Branch Heads:
“If the Walk for Palestine poster is up in your branch please remove it. We have had a number of complaints about it.”
The poster advertised a number of events around Palestine Solidarity Month, and contained the phrase “60 Years of [...]
Posted in collection development, public library, sex on February 26, 2008 | 2 Comments »
In the fall I went to the Metrotown branch of the Burnaby Public Library. I had heard rumors of a “purple dot” collection so I decided to find out more. The reference staff were lovely and explained that many of their instructional sex books and photography books were behind the circulation desk. [...]
Posted in LGBT, challenged books, challenges, children's books, public library on December 5, 2007 | No Comments »
King and King was challenged in the public library in Allentown, PA. King and King is a kids picture book about a prince who rejects a bevy of babes to chose Lee as the one he wants to marry. The library director’s comments are spot on and to the point:
Kathee Rhode, the library’s director, said [...]
Posted in filtering, internet, public library on November 30, 2007 | No Comments »
Last week the London Public Library Board voted 5-4 in favour of continuing to filter most adult workstations.
Cory Doctorow nicely summed up the problem with filters in an article in the Guardian:
These systems are failures because they continue to allow the bad stuff through. They’re disasters because they block mountains of good stuff.
See my earlier [...]
Posted in Little Sister's, censorship, filtering, internet, porn, public library, violence on November 22, 2007 | 2 Comments »
The management team of the London Public Library recommended that adult workstations continue to be filtered with a commercial internet filter (Netsweeper). They had done a pilot project to see what patrons and staff thought of having many adult workstations filtered. Not children’s workstations, but adult ones.
I like that they are transparent in [...]
