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From: Wendy Burton <burtonwl_at_yahoo.com>
Date: Mon, 27 Sep 2010 10:44:59 -0700 (PDT)
I remain confused by this. Surely you don't keep every book in the YA colle ction in the Juvenile collection as well, so why is it censorship to put Cl audette Colvin in the YA section only? And are there not, on occasion, book s that have been genuinely misfiled by a well-meaning librarian? I know the re are, actually. It's not unusual for me to see--for instance--adult works by Madeleine L'Engle miscategorized as children's or YA books by some libr arian who is probably only familiar with A Wrinkle in Time.
If Claudette Colvin is in the juvenile section and not in the YA (as some o ther posters have mentioned), while access isn't being restricted in any wa y, doesn't that reduce the likelihood that a teenage reader/researcher woul d come across it? Why isn't that just as bad as reducing the likelihood tha t a child would come across it in YA?
I don't really have a dog in this fight, but I get frustrated with what fee ls like knee-jerk responses any time this kind of situation comes up. And w hen I ask questions, sometimes people assume that I'm in the "censorship" c amp, which I'm not, so I hope you'll keep that in mind in any discussion of censorship, collection development, and gatekeeping--asking questions isn' t wrong.
But is there something wrong about the idea that Claudette Colvin: Twice To ward Justice might be a young adult book?
Wendy
--- On Mon, 9/27/10, Burgess, Francesca
wrote:
By holding CLAUDETTE COLVIN in both the Juvenile and Young Adult collections, children younger than 13 who are interested in this title have the freedom to borrow it. They should be allowed the choice to borrow it on their own, and if we deny them that choice, it is a formof censorship.
Received on Mon 27 Sep 2010 10:44:59 AM CDT
Date: Mon, 27 Sep 2010 10:44:59 -0700 (PDT)
I remain confused by this. Surely you don't keep every book in the YA colle ction in the Juvenile collection as well, so why is it censorship to put Cl audette Colvin in the YA section only? And are there not, on occasion, book s that have been genuinely misfiled by a well-meaning librarian? I know the re are, actually. It's not unusual for me to see--for instance--adult works by Madeleine L'Engle miscategorized as children's or YA books by some libr arian who is probably only familiar with A Wrinkle in Time.
If Claudette Colvin is in the juvenile section and not in the YA (as some o ther posters have mentioned), while access isn't being restricted in any wa y, doesn't that reduce the likelihood that a teenage reader/researcher woul d come across it? Why isn't that just as bad as reducing the likelihood tha t a child would come across it in YA?
I don't really have a dog in this fight, but I get frustrated with what fee ls like knee-jerk responses any time this kind of situation comes up. And w hen I ask questions, sometimes people assume that I'm in the "censorship" c amp, which I'm not, so I hope you'll keep that in mind in any discussion of censorship, collection development, and gatekeeping--asking questions isn' t wrong.
But is there something wrong about the idea that Claudette Colvin: Twice To ward Justice might be a young adult book?
Wendy
--- On Mon, 9/27/10, Burgess, Francesca
wrote:
By holding CLAUDETTE COLVIN in both the Juvenile and Young Adult collections, children younger than 13 who are interested in this title have the freedom to borrow it. They should be allowed the choice to borrow it on their own, and if we deny them that choice, it is a formof censorship.
Received on Mon 27 Sep 2010 10:44:59 AM CDT
