Thursday, September 27, 2007

To the Board of Directors

Dear Library board of Directors,
It has come to my attention that you pan to remove any books that are "questionable" from your book shelves. This plan of action really concerns me. Every person in entitled to his or her own opinion. One book may be "questionable" to one person, but loved by another. No book can correctly be tagged as questionable due to all people having their own points of view on any given book. Some of these books may also be able to help people do research. If a student would need a book on a certain topic and they go to find out it was removed because people found it to be "questionable" the student may be out of luck. I know I wouldn't want to spend around twenty or thirty dollars on a book at the bookstore if I'm only going to use it once in my life.
If you remove the books that you think are questionable, it could in turn come back to haunt you as people may not want to use the library. People may think that if the book that they need will no longer be on your shelves then they just won't come to take books out anymore. Some of the books may be very beneficial. If anything, i suggest that you place an age limit on the people that can see these books. For instance, if a book has too many sexual references or swearing in it, then maybe it should only be allowed to be checked out or looked at if a person is over the age of 18. Don't take away things can help some people out just because some people think that the things are wrong. Don't punish all people for the actions of a few. Thank you for your time and I hope you take my thoughts into consideration.

Sincerely,
Kyle Nester

1 comment:

dan said...

I had the same point of view that you did with setting an age limit if anything. The only problems I saw were a left out word or letter in a few spots.