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Gov Ivey proposes new amendments for AL public libraries to receive state fundingGovernor Kay Ivey demands policy revisions from Alabama Public Library Service .Governor Ivey is not confident that our local libraries are fulfilling their mission. The governor says there are books located in the children’s section that have inappropriate or explicit content. Tonight, she is saying the State's Public Library Service Director, Dr. Nancy Pack, is not doing enough to fix the problem.
Johnson says her library and many others already have policies in place that do not allow children up to a certain age to check out a book without parental supervision.Johnson says simply moving books is another form of censorship. The second proposed amendment is to “advance approval of materials recommended, displayed, or otherwise actively promoted to children or youth.”
Governor Ivey recommended 3 ways that the Alabama Public Library Service can address those concerns. Below are her full comments:Make state aid for local libraries contingent on the adoption of sensible policies to facilitate greater parental supervision of their children. We also reached out to Dr. Nancy Pack, the Director of the Alabama Public Library Service. We didn't hear back.to APLS Director Nancy Pack, as well as proposed amendments to the Library Service’s administrative rules:Thank you for the information you provided in response to my concerns about public libraries in Alabama. I appreciate the hard work you and the Library Service Executive Board have done to help get to the bottom of this important problem.
Yet your submission makes clear that currently it is up to parents alone with no support from libraries-to prevent their children from being exposed to these materials. Without more, invoking "parental responsibility"-and only "parental responsibility"-in response to parents' legitimate concerns sends the wrong message, that libraries are not a place for families or children. To the contrary, parents should be confident that the materials available in children 's sections are, in fact, suitable for children. And children should have the freedom to wander freely in a children's section without being exposed to harmful materials.
For example, the "critical analysis" praised the ALA's "intellectual freedom efforts" as a reason to remain affiliated with the ALA. 2. Require all expenditures of public funds to the American Library Association be approved by the relevant governing authority in an open, public meeting. As explained above, I cannot defend the ALA's position on "intellectual freedom" insofar as it would entitle any child to access any book, however sexually explicit or otherwise inappropriate.
To reiterate, I agree that the decision of which books to obtain is a distinctly local issue, and I agree that books should not be "banned" from libraries based on unpopular opinions or content.
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