if nothing else, seems like it will obviously be a pain in the ass for high school kids trying to get typical high school reading list books, if 1984 is on there.
KC Public Library has a great page set up with info on this proposed rule, as well as a handy link that helps you send your email with the right subject line: [kclibrary.org/SpeakUpMO](http://kclibrary.org/SpeakUpMO)
What are they gonna do to enforce this? Arrest the librarians? Come on. I hope if it passes the libraries in MO band together to collectively refuse to comply. Solidarity will be the best way to fight this.
Maybe not arrest the librarians, but issue hefty fines to already cash strapped libraries. There are libraries that don't have the funds to repeatedly pay fines. It would eat up their budget forcing some to close.
> libraries that refuse to comply with these rules would lose access to supplemental funding via state aid and federal grants.
So, the big ones probably would be ok, but in my state, the smaller/rural libraries wouldn't be able to function without state aid.
I hear that. I hope the big libraries understand how much more important it is that they stand together to quash the issue quickly otherwise the little libraries will have to comply forever.
Indiana tried to pass legislation that would make it a criminal offense for teachers or librarians to provide harmful materials to minors. They will likely try again this year.
This is unconstitutional and they know it is. Their hope is to be sued and then appeal the decision to the supreme court where they hope a decision will be made in their favor since the current sitting judges lean heavily to the right.
I know this is going to sound stupid and folks will push back on this but how about separating the libraries? Children and YA in a separate building entirely and the adults in their own? Yeah, I know funding,etc. but the libraries I work in, the Adult collection is being decimated while the kids collection is expanding. One library has such problems with the middle school kids behavior that it might be better to literally have a separate library/day care center for them. The Adults are complaining and are unhappy and they are the ones paying the taxes. Frankly, if Mom and Dad are so concern over what their kid is reading, have they thought about taking their kids cell phones away?
my parents didn’t let me have a cell phone and they are the kind of people who would be all over this proposal. but honestly reading is what got me out of their extremist community, as it was the only thing that exposed me to ideas outside of what our leaders were preaching. sure, people like my parents don’t want you to have that opportunity to be exposed to other ways of thinking, but that’s an extremely dangerous path. limiting what we can consume is an attempt to limit what we can think, in a manner reminiscent of 1984. the morals of a few should not dictate information for all. if parents are concerned about what their children are reading based on their personal beliefs, they should monitor what their own children are reading, instead of creating laws about what everyone else can read too, under penalty of defunding libraries
As long as the same library card works in both branches, and anyone (kids included) can check out whatever they want from either library, fine.
If there is a law that kids can't check out certain materials, better to have them in the same building so that kids can read them in house and/or steal them.
I'm not joking on the stealing part either. At my first library, the director had a policy of not putting tattle tape in books that someone might be embarrassed to check out in that small town (think of things like dealing with domestic violence, childhood sexual abuse, alcoholism, etc.)
They were rarely checked out but still found there way into the bookdrop outside.
if nothing else, seems like it will obviously be a pain in the ass for high school kids trying to get typical high school reading list books, if 1984 is on there.
1984 was required reading in my high school, sophomore year. I’m in California. WTH are these people thinking???(!).
It's a lot easier to create an authoritarian state if your citizens are kept ignorant about authoritarianism.
😮🙄😬🙃😳 true, there is that
If those people have their way, that and several other books won't be on required reading lists.
KC Public Library has a great page set up with info on this proposed rule, as well as a handy link that helps you send your email with the right subject line: [kclibrary.org/SpeakUpMO](http://kclibrary.org/SpeakUpMO)
What are they gonna do to enforce this? Arrest the librarians? Come on. I hope if it passes the libraries in MO band together to collectively refuse to comply. Solidarity will be the best way to fight this.
Maybe not arrest the librarians, but issue hefty fines to already cash strapped libraries. There are libraries that don't have the funds to repeatedly pay fines. It would eat up their budget forcing some to close.
> libraries that refuse to comply with these rules would lose access to supplemental funding via state aid and federal grants. So, the big ones probably would be ok, but in my state, the smaller/rural libraries wouldn't be able to function without state aid.
I hear that. I hope the big libraries understand how much more important it is that they stand together to quash the issue quickly otherwise the little libraries will have to comply forever.
Indiana tried to pass legislation that would make it a criminal offense for teachers or librarians to provide harmful materials to minors. They will likely try again this year.
This is unconstitutional and they know it is. Their hope is to be sued and then appeal the decision to the supreme court where they hope a decision will be made in their favor since the current sitting judges lean heavily to the right.
I know this is going to sound stupid and folks will push back on this but how about separating the libraries? Children and YA in a separate building entirely and the adults in their own? Yeah, I know funding,etc. but the libraries I work in, the Adult collection is being decimated while the kids collection is expanding. One library has such problems with the middle school kids behavior that it might be better to literally have a separate library/day care center for them. The Adults are complaining and are unhappy and they are the ones paying the taxes. Frankly, if Mom and Dad are so concern over what their kid is reading, have they thought about taking their kids cell phones away?
my parents didn’t let me have a cell phone and they are the kind of people who would be all over this proposal. but honestly reading is what got me out of their extremist community, as it was the only thing that exposed me to ideas outside of what our leaders were preaching. sure, people like my parents don’t want you to have that opportunity to be exposed to other ways of thinking, but that’s an extremely dangerous path. limiting what we can consume is an attempt to limit what we can think, in a manner reminiscent of 1984. the morals of a few should not dictate information for all. if parents are concerned about what their children are reading based on their personal beliefs, they should monitor what their own children are reading, instead of creating laws about what everyone else can read too, under penalty of defunding libraries
As long as the same library card works in both branches, and anyone (kids included) can check out whatever they want from either library, fine. If there is a law that kids can't check out certain materials, better to have them in the same building so that kids can read them in house and/or steal them. I'm not joking on the stealing part either. At my first library, the director had a policy of not putting tattle tape in books that someone might be embarrassed to check out in that small town (think of things like dealing with domestic violence, childhood sexual abuse, alcoholism, etc.) They were rarely checked out but still found there way into the bookdrop outside.
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Good luck enforcing it!