Re: Query About Controversial Material

[Audrey Glick <aglick@COLUMBUS.RR.COM>]

I always put books about sex right on the shelf where they belong according
to Dewey.  I made no fanfare about them; nothing to call attention to them.
Kids have the amazing ability to find what they need.  Of course, if a
student asked for information about sex, I'd steer them to what he needed,
as with any other topic.  Sex books have a tendency to grow legs and walk
out of the library, but I was able to keep many titles on the shelf.  If
books are held behind the desk or in some other inaccessible place, we are
making a statement about the subject matter.  I managed to get through my
whole career without challenge to sexual, or any other, material.  Kids tend
to know what they shouldn't take home.  On the other hand, I had one book
that took forever to get back because the student and her mom were reading
every word together.

Audrey Glick
LMS at Home
aglick@columbus.rr.com
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