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Originally Posted by meeera
Librarians have been absolutely central in the fight against censorship for a long time. It's a core value of their profession. Read this and the subsections.
http://www.ala.org/advocacy/intfreedom/librarybill
And this
https://www.ftrf.org/page/History
Why on earth anyone would prefer to outsource library materials selection from the relevant highly trained professionals to untrained "community" reps - who have, on the whole, volunteered to interfere because they are in favour of censorship - is beyond me. |
And I find the idea that "trained professionals" are better censors than "untrained community reps" highly annoying. Trained professionals have their own personal prejudices, sometimes instilled in them by their training. You can pound the table all you want about it's not a prejudice when it's my prejudice, but that doesn't make it true. Everyone has prejudices, things they favor over other things.
When I was a kid, there wasn't much SF&F in libraries because it wasn't "real literature". That's not the case anymore, but there are plenty of books out there that you likely will have trouble finding in most libraries simply because the Librarian Guild (TM) disagrees with what's in the books and thus puts them at the bottom of the list when deciding what books to buy with their limited resources.