Tag: ALA

Defund Woke Library Lobbyists: Our Tax Dollars Should Not Fund the ALA

August 17, 2024

by Op-Ed

By Arlene Quaratiello – In February 2024, the American Library Association posted a press release on its website opposing Georgia legislation that would have defunded it. This press release describes the ALA as “the preeminent non-profit, non-partisan organization dedicated to the development, promotion, and improvement of library and information services in the United States.” The American Library Association further … Read more

Not to be used for bribing politicians money

Is Melanie Pushing for Free ALA Money? You Tell Me.

May 12, 2024

by Julie Smith

By now, anyone who’s not politically asleep at the wheel ought to know that the American Library Association (ALA) is no friend of any community of decent people. Please talk to people like Beth Scaer and her husband or Rep Arlene Quaratiello or Cindy Bennett if you want to learn more.

Why Can’t They Just Let Kids Be Kids?

November 9, 2023

by Op-Ed

Almost eighty years ago, Margaret Scoggin, a librarian at the New York Public Library, made an odd choice. As one of the founders of the NYPL children’s branch in the early 1940s, Scoggin had been contributing a column to Library Journal called “Books for Older Boys and Girls.” In 1944, she inexplicably decided that her articles should instead be published under the title “Books for Young Adults.”

Protesting “Inclusive Collections”

July 19, 2023

by Op-Ed

During an online professional development course called “How To Build and Defend Inclusive Collections” sponsored by Library Journal, Cornell University collection development librarian Carson Williams, asserted that “fostering an inclusive, safe queer library environment is the most important thing you can do.”

The Internet Didn’ Kill Libraries But Emily Drabinski Might

May 3, 2022

by Steve MacDonald

Back when almost everyone and everything was trying desperately to get or “be” online the culture posited some ideas about what that might mean. Would we need paper anymore (the paperless office) and what about libraries?

Petition: Tell the American Library Association to Stop Pushing Drag Queens on Our Kids

June 21, 2019

by Steve MacDonald

If the Drag Queen conversion movement is part of the culture war (it is), then the American Library Association (ALA) is one of its Generals. Promoting and funding Drag Queen Story Hour’s that put sell sex-performers as gender reformers for children.