Comments on: New Canaan librarian draws attention to schools’ Web filters http://www.librarystuff.net/2011/07/31/new-canaan-librarian-draws-attention-to-schools-web-filters/ The library weblog dedicated to resources for keeping current and professional development Tue, 16 Dec 2014 18:02:04 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=4.0.1 By: Dan Kleinman of SafeLibraries http://www.librarystuff.net/2011/07/31/new-canaan-librarian-draws-attention-to-schools-web-filters/comment-page-1/#comment-57290 Mon, 01 Aug 2011 05:08:58 +0000 http://www.librarystuff.net/2011/07/31/new-canaan-librarian-draws-attention-to-schools-web-filters/#comment-57290 New Canaan High School’s Library Department Chair Michelle Luhtala may have a perfectly valid point about social media. However, she undercuts her own argument by repeating the false propaganda of the American Library Association about so-called Banned Books Weeks. In reality, no books have been banned in the USA for about half a century. See http://tinyurl.com/Sowell In reality, the ALA uses admitted sub-standard material that the ALA plagiarized to promote BBW. See http://safelibraries.blogspot.com/2010/12/how-ala-plagiarism-becomes-truth.html

Since Luhtala is promoting ALA propaganda and making false statements, like “I see it as similar to banned books in that there are other voices telling people what they have access to in relation to what people are reading,” as if no one should ever tell a student what he or she may read despite Board of Education v. Pico, that causes me to give her statements less weight. When a school librarian is cleverly convincing a community to overlook reality and US Supreme Court cases, that should cause anyone concern.

At least she says, “Pornography is blocked, obviously, and it should be.”

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