06/17/2024
Everyone,
I just discovered now something.
You know how the right to read laws say librarians are trusted and are trained in the right materials for children? They want that in the law and we are all supposed to believe that.
You know how EveryLibrary (really ALA) and ALA is driving the law to be passed nationwide?
Well I found an EveryLibrary source where librarians reveal they indeed really suck at that. They are so bad at material relating to s*x that they avoid it. And librarians need to be trained to get over their avoidance of that so as to better s*xualize children.
Useful quote (one of many) and source:
"In this article, we demonstrate that librarians and library workers are neither wellprepared by their training, nor supported systemically, to tackle the barrage of complex emotional and ethical issues that they must face in the course of collecting materials that relate to s*x, gender, and s*xuality." https://journals.library.wustl.edu/pollib/article/8812/galley/25621/view/
More on that source:
https://journals.library.wustl.edu/pollib/article/id/8812/
Notice one of the authors--the Immediate Past President of NJASL and on the Executive Board of NJASL that's colluding with the NJ legislature to pass this S2421 A3446 law and that the law sets up as the author of the model school book collection and review policies--point is she KNOWS the law is a big lie:
From the article:
Ewa Dziedzic-Elliott serves as the subject librarian for all departments in the School of Education. She has 10 years of experience as a K-12 librarian, including work in both elementary and high school settings. She holds an MLIS from Rutgers University and an MA in Polish Language and Literature with a minor in Speech Therapy from Jan Kochanowski University, Poland, EU. She has published in the Journal of Academic Librarianship and Library Connections
From the NJASL page: https://njasl.org/BoardTrustees
IMMEDIATE PAST PRESIDENT: EWA DZIEDZIC-ELLIOTT [email protected]
Ewa Dziedzic-Elliott serves as the subject librarian for all departments in the School of Education. She has 10 years of experience as a K-12 librarian, including work in both elementary and high school settings. She holds an MLIS from Rutgers University and an MA in Polish Language and Literature with a minor in Speech Therapy from Jan Kochanowski University, Poland, EU. She also holds NJ supervisor and principal certifications. Her research interests include research skills of high school and first year college students, diversity and equity in collection management and barriers to information, especially in the immigrant, multicultural, and bilingual communities. She has published in the Journal of Academic Librarianship and Library Connections. She is an executive board member for New Jersey Association of School Librarians (NJASL) and currently serves as NJASL Immediate Past President.
The last few years have seen a massive wave of book bans and challenges, and in some cases legal action directed at librarians and library workers in the United States. Most of these challenges have involved materials dealing with s*xuality, specifically LGBTQ+ identities and expressions. Though the...
