Comments on: More from AL http://www.librarystuff.net/2008/10/08/more-from-al/ The library weblog dedicated to resources for keeping current and professional development Sun, 12 Feb 2012 05:33:21 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Auntie Nanuuq http://www.librarystuff.net/2008/10/08/more-from-al/comment-page-1/#comment-25681 Auntie Nanuuq Thu, 09 Oct 2008 19:34:45 +0000 http://www.librarystuff.net/2008/10/08/more-from-al/#comment-25681 I am responsible for adding gift materials to the library's collection. Hell yes, I "censor", if that's what you want to call it! If it doesn't fit the community, I don't add it...waste of time & money! However, we might (do) have one book on Dianetics, one Book of Mormon, one Quran, a few right-wing fundamentalist (so-called) Christian books, just to round out our collection, but to add multiple copies in a community where they are not requested or circulated...not a happening thing. Not to mention, most people in this community who want to read such books, usually have their own copies... So, on occasion (not usually) I add them, but as soon as it is time to weed, and I see that these books have circulated less than twice a year, and certainly not ever in the past 8-10 months, then I weed them. Censorship? Maybe yes, maybe no! I am responsible for adding gift materials to the library’s collection. Hell yes, I “censor”, if that’s what you want to call it! If it doesn’t fit the community, I don’t add it…waste of time & money!

However, we might (do) have one book on Dianetics, one Book of Mormon, one Quran, a few right-wing fundamentalist (so-called) Christian books, just to round out our collection, but to add multiple copies in a community where they are not requested or circulated…not a happening thing. Not to mention, most people in this community who want to read such books, usually have their own copies…

So, on occasion (not usually) I add them, but as soon as it is time to weed, and I see that these books have circulated less than twice a year, and certainly not ever in the past 8-10 months, then I weed them.

Censorship? Maybe yes, maybe no!

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