I read an interesting article the other day which was about how technology was influencing libraries such as the use of online catalogues etc. However the thing that interested me the most was how how technology can help to use the space in libraries more effeciently but this subject was only touched upon briefly. So I just wondered, how does your library make use of limitted space? what items take up less space than traditional formats?
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....on the story of a pair of library workers losing their jobs by refusing to check out The League of Extraordinary Gentleman: The Black Dossier to a patron as per their employer’s policy.
http://www.kentucky.com/latest_news/sto
http://www.boingboing.net/2009/11/18/li
http://pwbeat.publishersweekly.com/b
While it is an adult graphic novel and not a child's comic book, it was wrong HOW the book was witheld (against policy and on personal whims).The circulation clerks should have conferred with and deferred to a supervisor about policy concerning challenged materials (even when challenged by staff); perhaps requesting to hold the book for the approval of the 11 year old patron's parents before checkout in this case- if that is allowed in policy.
Later Edit: Turns out the public library where I work has also had patron complaints about sexual content in LEG graphic novels (different volume, ours in #2 and has a couple of "racy" pages of Alan Quartermain and Mina Harker being intimate. Shows boobs and butts, sexual poses, but no genitalia in view). The book is still in circulation, shelved in our Graphic Novel Section.
Part of me wants to roll my eyes and say "good grief", it wouldn't take you long at all to go grab a mystery, contemporary fiction or even a classic to find something with just as or more explicit content..is the difference just because of the format and this being visual? What about photography books of nudes or ancient greek art? IMO, Let it be and be responsible to yourslef (or your family) about what you choose to read. It comes down to freedom of information and of choice; I'm glad a wide variety of books are available in our public libraries.
http://www.kentucky.com/latest_news/sto
http://www.boingboing.net/2009/11/18/li
http://pwbeat.publishersweekly.com/b
While it is an adult graphic novel and not a child's comic book, it was wrong HOW the book was witheld (against policy and on personal whims).The circulation clerks should have conferred with and deferred to a supervisor about policy concerning challenged materials (even when challenged by staff); perhaps requesting to hold the book for the approval of the 11 year old patron's parents before checkout in this case- if that is allowed in policy.
Later Edit: Turns out the public library where I work has also had patron complaints about sexual content in LEG graphic novels (different volume, ours in #2 and has a couple of "racy" pages of Alan Quartermain and Mina Harker being intimate. Shows boobs and butts, sexual poses, but no genitalia in view). The book is still in circulation, shelved in our Graphic Novel Section.
Part of me wants to roll my eyes and say "good grief", it wouldn't take you long at all to go grab a mystery, contemporary fiction or even a classic to find something with just as or more explicit content..is the difference just because of the format and this being visual? What about photography books of nudes or ancient greek art? IMO, Let it be and be responsible to yourslef (or your family) about what you choose to read. It comes down to freedom of information and of choice; I'm glad a wide variety of books are available in our public libraries.
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