Congress bans kids from libraries?

New safety law may prohibit children under 12 from libraries – or make many books illegal

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January 12, 2009 by Uncategorized 9

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9 Responses

  1. Fang-Face says:
    January 12, 2009 at 10:22 am

    What else is new from elected parasites?
    Yet another badly written law based on vague and ill-defined fears and born out of “We Must Protect The Children” hysteria.

    There is nothing that cannot be found offensive by someone, somewhere.

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  2. Chuck says:
    January 12, 2009 at 3:08 pm

    real and imagined
    Actually, Michael, we really must protect the children from lead. That one is real.

    The spillover and hassle to libraries seems to have been unintentional.

    Apropos of nothing: Bonus points to ALA for not using its lobbying and legal muscle to catch this before it was passed.

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  3. Chuck says:
    January 12, 2009 at 3:19 pm

    money quote
    “Consider for a minute that a twelve-year-old is a junior high school student,” says Adler. “This is not somebody who is likely to be chewing or sucking on a book.”

    Well, I’m not so sure about that. Are we in Ohio?

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  4. Anonymous says:
    January 12, 2009 at 3:58 pm

    Tools
    Passing this nonsense on is what makes librarians look like complete tools. You know perfectly well children will not be banned from libraries, nor will books be made illegal.

    These types of the sky is falling, Chicken Little incidents have made the public wary of anything librarians say.

    If the ALA were actually being proactive, rather than working to keep porn available to perverts they would have worked on this, but they were busy with grassroots efforts to keep libraries open in…. well maybe they were all out sick that week.

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    • Chuck says:
      January 12, 2009 at 4:32 pm

      tiny poultry
      Anti-porn and anti-pervert crusaders are working on a problem that is less likely to happen (no kidding) than multiple winning lottery tickets and being crushed by chunks of falling airliner.

      The public isn’t wary of what librarians say. The public isn’t AWARE of what librarians say. They are generally not aware of librarians at all.

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  5. Anonymous says:
    January 12, 2009 at 5:04 pm

    “We are very busy trying
    “We are very busy trying to come up with a way to make it not apply to libraries,” said Sheketoff. But unless she succeeds in lobbying Capitol Hill for an exemption, she believes libraries have two choices under the CPSIA: “Either they take all the children’s books off the shelves,” she says, “or they ban children from the library.”

    What qualifications does Sheketoff have to be doing statutory analysis?
    I agree with the other commentator that this is chicken little stuff. Will ALA get rid of Sheketoff when six months from now no children’s books have been removed from the shelves and kids can still use libraries and time has shown that the ALA Washington branch is incompetent?

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    • Anonymous says:
      January 12, 2009 at 7:39 pm

      She has an arse
      She has an arse, she has been pulling things out of it for years. No analysis (no pun intended) just scare tactics and fear mongering. Of course librarys won’t close, of course books won’t be destroyed, no one ever suggested they would be, except some moron librarians.

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  6. Anonymous says:
    January 12, 2009 at 7:43 pm

    Sheketoff …lways comes across as intelligent, sane…
    From here

    Emily Sheketoff is one of my favorite ALA employees to listen to. She always comes across as intelligent, sane and someone who has a deep and broad grasp of library issues in this new millenium including library technology issues.

    Ahhhh ha ha ha ha…. geez stop it, I am going to pee my pants. Hee he he he.

    Everyone is entitled to their opinion I guess.

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  7. Anonymous says:
    January 13, 2009 at 3:22 pm

    Kids out of library
    Why does Sheketoff think that keeping kids out of the library is a fix? If you go with her premise that the childrens books violate the law the only thing I think that would be allowed would be to get rid of the books.

    Walmart cannot sell lead based children toys if the keep kids out of the store. If an item is in violation you cannot have it at all.

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