There’s a new way to check out what your kids are checking out from the library.
The Alabama Public Library Service voted to post a list of books considered inappropriate for children on their website at Wednesday’s meeting. The list is solely based on submissions as the public will be able to send in titles they think are inappropriate which will then be posted to the APLSThe vote on this new feature wasn’t without passionate debate from supporters and opponents.
“If my mother’s friends had known that I had read that book, they would have been shocked in 1953,” said Vickery. “This has nothing to do with the LGBTQ community specifically,” said Rees. “This has to do with sexually explicit content and radical ideologies that are being promoted to our young children.”
“Local libraries will not be required to do anything here. This is something that APLS is doing as a resource for parents and local libraries,” said John Wahl, APLS board member and ALGOP Chairman.“Parents still have access to it if they want to buy this for their children,” said Wahl. “But we don’t want to have it in libraries where innocent children can stumble upon it.”
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