I decided to do a lecture for my MLIS grad students about this topic, and due to popular demand I decided to do a blog post on it too. Seuss Week (which actually is called Read Across America Week) which then generally slides over into more general discussion about weeding and how librarians can address harmful or “problematic” books and authors when developing and maintaining library collections. Seuss books and what some refer to as Dr. Pretty much every year, as March approaches, there begins the annual discourse about Dr.
Most school and public libraries develop collections intended to serve the current and emerging needs and interests of their user community, and it is to those librarians which this blog post may be helpful. Please note that this is in reference only to school or public library collections, and won’t necessarily be relevant to personal book collections, special libraries, archives, historical, museum, or other niche collections.
I thought that this would be a good time for us to talk how librarians can address and approach harmful or “problematic” books when it comes to library collections.
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