The new movement is against the professional organization that has fought against book bans.
library officials over books in the library’s children’s section, a library board with several new members appointed by the County Commission withdrew from the ALA last year."We were the first library in nation to do this. And now it has progressed to something to something I couldn’t even have imagined," library board member Charles Butler said. "And all we were ever worried about was the sexualization of children.
While librarians pride themselves about being open to different perspectives and providing access to different kinds of materials, political leaders telling them to part with the ALA runs against that, said Washington University in St. Louis law professor Gregory Magarian. In Campbell County, recent library policy changes remove the ALA’s "Library Bill of Rights," which states: "A person’s right to use a library should not be denied or abridged because of origin, age, background, or views."
"If we just start moving books, it is really putting the library staff in a bad position legally," Lesley said at a library board meeting just before her firing July 28. "This raises First Amendment concerns with no right to appeal or challenge books that have been weeded." Kleinman last month launched an alternative to the ALA, the World Library Association, which he said will offer new policy guidelines for libraries.Butler and Campbell County Library Board Chairwoman Sage Bear, who did not return phone and email messages seeking comment, have joined as "team members" of the World Library Association. Butler said he hoped the new association will eventually offer librarian continuing education that Campbell County can no longer provide through the ALA.
"ALA is not telling our library workers, our collection development librarians, you have to have this book in your library collection," Saldivar said.
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