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2023-09-22 Government Corruption

Libraries Clearing Shelves Through ‘Equity-Based’ Book Weeding

by Mark Tapson

The Diary of a Young Girl by Holocaust victim Anne Frank, the massively popular Harry Potter series, and the Newberry Medal-winning novel Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry about racial conflict in 1930s Mississippi are some notable examples of books that 10th grader Reina Takata can no longer find in her public high school library in Ontario, Canada. Why not? Because those titles were culled as part of a new “equity-based” weeding process implemented by the Peel District School Board (PDSB) last spring, leaving library shelves as bare as supermarket shelves in Biden’s America.

Miss Takata told CBC Toronto that the shelves at Erindale Secondary School were full of books as recently as May, but gradually began to empty out. When she returned to school in the fall, “I came into my school library and there are rows and rows of empty shelves with absolutely no books.” (Takata herself took the photo above, of the bookshelves in her Mississauga high school’s library.) She estimates that more than half of her school’s library books are gone.

Libraries across Canada and in the United States have long followed standard weeding plans to dispose of damaged or outdated books; this is understandable and reasonable. But Reina Takata and many other students and parents are concerned that this new process emphasizing the leftist buzzwords “equity” and “inclusion” seems to have led some schools to remove thousands of books simply because they were published in 2008 or earlier.

Libraries not Landfills, a group of parents, retired teachers, and community members, says it has no issue with standard weeding but is concerned about both fiction and nonfiction books being removed based solely on their publication date. The group is also concerned about how subjective criteria like “inclusivity” are to be interpreted from school to school.

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Posted by badanov 2023-09-22 06:39|| || Front Page|| [11133 views ] Top

#1 I used to take one of my kids to the library to do her homework a couple of times a week. She could not focus at home and our internet service is routinely awful (Spectrum.) The only other patron I remember was a schizophrenic and/or homeless dude who routinely disturbed us with his loud conversations with himself. Based on what I saw, libraries are not making much of an impact on our society today. The homeless problem will likely make them more and more unusable. If you must use one, bring two sets of foamy earplugs and use the second set for your nostrils.

Posted by Super Hose 2023-09-22 11:03|| 2023-09-22 11:03|| Front Page Top

#2 Ray Bradbury's Fahrenheit 451 was not supposed to be a how-to guide.

Posted by magpie 2023-09-22 11:35|| 2023-09-22 11:35|| Front Page Top

#3 The wokeness makes it very easy to ignore the library fund drives and speak out against tax revenues intended for libraries.

Posted by M. Murcek 2023-09-22 12:03|| 2023-09-22 12:03|| Front Page Top

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