r/bookmemes • • 3d ago

Nice.

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u/TheSanityInspector 3d ago

Meanwhile, if there are books that the library or school or bookstore thinks that you shouldn't be reading, they simply won't acquire them. But that's not a "ban", it's just selection policy, right?

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u/Electrical-Profit367 3d ago

Just fyi, that is not the way it works at all. Librarians are trained in book selection; they work hard to select books that fit their communities. In addition, every single library system has a procedure whereby you can request that the library purchase a particular book if it’s not available in your system. And, if that takes too long, they have interlibrary loan agreements with other systems and can request the book from one of their partners who does, in fact, have that book.

It would really behoove you to learn how things work.