Re: Books Banned in Utah.

On 8 Aug 2024 08:11:01 -0000, kludge@panix.com (Scott Dorsey) wrote:

Mike Van Pelt  <usenet@mikevanpelt.com> wrote:

Do you want grammar school libraries to stock The Turner
Diaries, or other racist literature?  I sure don't.

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This is what librarians are for.  They provide context to books.

I'm not sure what is meant by "provide context". I suggest that making
choices, providing clues to where a particular book might be, and
keeping order is closer to what librarians are for.

A well-curated, well-maintained, and easily navigated library is a
thing of beauty.

But what "context"? Posters? Pamphlets? Lecture series? Nattering at
patrons about the books they are checking out? Sounds pretty intrusive
to me.

And what /conceivable/ "context" could make, say, /Lady Chatterley's
Lover/ acceptable to 4th graders? Apart from putting it in the Adult
Section and keeping the kids confined to the Kiddie Section, of
course.
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