Library Board Meeting: Thursday, 9/22

The new Board wants to stop distributing porn to kids, and they can use your support!

Please attend the Hamilton East Public Library Board meeting on Thursday, September 22, at 4:15 pm in the Fishers Library (5 Municipal Drive). If you would like to speak, you need to sign in by 4:10 pm.

A group of fringe activists who believe that pornography should continue to be passed out to eleven-year-olds will likely be there to say that I am trying to ban books. This is false. I have never tried to ban a single book. I am asking that the library stop promoting inappropriate materials to children, both through their choice of shelving location and through their distribution of books to children in book clubs. That’s it.

The Board will talk about HEPL’s collection development policy, and will be considering a proposal to ensure that pornography and other age-inappropriate material is placed in the adult section rather than the children’s section.

See my most recent post on these issues here, or start from the very beginning of the problems with my earliest post on these issues, here.