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 Posted: Tue Jan 22, 2008 10:06 pm
One day when I walked into the library at my college, which is public and state-funded, I looked over at the new non-fiction books that they bought for the college students. There were anti-gay books and most notibly anti-abortion books. Mind you, I do live in a rather conservative area, however I find it unfair that there are no books for the opposition. Due to certain regulations about paper writing, most students are not allowed to use more than 2 websites for reference and the others have to be articles or books.
How do you think I should approach getting the references needed in the library to be fair, go to the circulation desk or straight to the dean?
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Posted: Wed Jan 23, 2008 9:28 am
Geez, I dunno how to handle this, but it sounds like something needs to be done.
Are there at least some of those "Both Sides: _____" or "Issues in Focus: _____" that give both sides of a debate equal time?
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Posted: Wed Jan 23, 2008 11:46 am
The best way to get the sources you need:
Look online or in your library catalogue, and request the books be transferred from a different library to your library and check them out then.
Cause a fuss and make a statement if you want... but if your goal is just to get the sources you need, it's not that hard to do.
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Posted: Wed Jan 23, 2008 5:50 pm
As I run my school's library and know the basics of how a public/larger scale library would be run, I'd go straight to the dean about it, just because those books on the shelves are bought and approved by the librarian(s) there.
You would just be wasting your time arguing with him/her over the issue.
Obviously that person is trying to impose their view on the topics by only buying prejudice and hateful books.
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Posted: Wed Jan 23, 2008 9:25 pm
Trite elegy, what about if it was a large city or rural public library system? Who would I go to in order to talk about the lack of a certain subject of books?
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Posted: Thu Jan 24, 2008 12:59 am
Grip of Death Trite elegy, what about if it was a large city or rural public library system? Who would I go to in order to talk about the lack of a certain subject of books?
Just ask for the head librarian. (other names for the postion may be administrator or director) If there is one. It varies from city to city, like my city has a 'council' of librarians and all of the downriver metro detroit libraries are interconnected - since they are like that, like Talon-chan said, the ability to go online and have the book transferred from one library to another is there, but that would not be the case say for a rural library. For instance my father lives out in the boonies of SE MI, and the town's library does not have any true hired librarians because of the lack of funds. Volunteers run it. When I tried suggesting books and some other stuff for the library I had to talk to the mayor & treasurer, and the only thing they knew about libraries is that they are a place for books - that's it. gonk
But usually, if you walk into a library and want the person running the show, it will be a head librarian ( out of seniority & education level) who you would be talking with.
Universities and colleges are a little bit different. Again it depends on where you are. Most state (or large scale) universities, IE: Eastern MI, Northern MI, Central MI, etc. will have interconnected libraries with the ability of book transfers and those will be run by actual degree holding librarians or historians. Well known community colleges with several campus locations MIGHT be interconnected, and will be run by librarians.
If you go to a private school, the possibilities are endless, you just have to do some research to find out what is really going on.
Last but not least, college libraries do have a upper hand on public ones as they will have more up to date/just more books on a topic and a greated accessibility to those books. For example, if your college has a medical campus, try looking in there library as it will have the least biased books on abortion.
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