zlacker

>>Anon84+(OP)
So if I donate a pornographic novel to an elementary school in Illinois, besides being an asshole, have I put them in a position of having to circulate it or lose funding?

>>aidenn+7f
No library system is under any particular obligation to stock what you give them, much less accept donations to begin with. It's unclear why they would be, much less why this would be a "gotcha" in this context.

>>woodru+hf
So what you're saying is any library can ban a book?

>>refurb+JC
Curation =/= banning. Telling curators (librarians) "You can't have any book on this list even if you want them, or you'll go to jail" is banning books.

>>sangno+UD
What’s the practical difference though?

Someone still decides the book is not gonna be there, mostly for ideological reasons.

I guess if you agree with those reasons, it’s “curation”, if you don’t, it’s “banning”.

>>tomp+aG
> I guess if you agree with those reasons, it’s “curation”, if you don’t, it’s “banning”.

Curation is part of the job for librarians, and it's a specialized skill. I don't have to agree with an ideology to accept what they do is curation - a Librarian in a Taliban library still curates their collection regardless of my endorsement of Sharia. If they are instructed by Kabul to remove specific texts, then it's a ban.

Someone decides what music gets played on radio and what the TV lineup looks like and calling that selection "banning" is reaching IMO . When the legislature is coming up with a blacklist, then it's blatantly "banning" to me