Democratic Gov. Tim Walz signed HF3782 into law last week, which prevents libraries from removing books “based solely on the viewpoint, content, message, idea, or opinion conveyed.” Instead, content curation will be managed by “a licensed library media specialist, an individual with a master’s degree in library sciences or library and information sciences, or a professional librarian or person with extensive library collection management experience."
This entirely depends if the libraries are publically run, or if they are private. If the library is private, then it should be allowed to curate what it wishes.
Side note, licensing someone for this purpose is quite hillarious — It’s not complicated to just not ban books…
This entirely depends if the libraries are publically run, or if they are private. If the library is private, then it should be allowed to curate what it wishes.
Side note, licensing someone for this purpose is quite hillarious — It’s not complicated to just not ban books…
They’re basically saying librarians shouldn’t be random political appointees. They need to actually be librarians
Again, the ethics of this law heavily depends on if it applies to libraries which are publically or privately run.
It’s risky, imo, to define this through law.