New library association to open for business July 24, 2023.
CHATHAM, NJ April 23 2023: There needs to be a replacement for the American Library Association [ALA] and all the state librarian associations that are just local enforcers for ALA. This page is a work in progress as I build ideas for the incipient Safe Libraries Association [SLA], and I'll be doing this publicly so people can observe as it's built then provide suggestions and constructive criticism to me directly or via the comments feature below.
So this is a WORK IN PROGRESS.
I think we need to look at the many problems with ALA, list them, then provide a means for SLA to eliminate them.
Problems With ALA:
→ALA policies create unsafe working conditions for librarians and patrons.
- S3xual harassment of librarians is an every day occurrence when ALA policies says Internet computers should be unfiltered by default. To me, this is step one in building SLA, namely, to recommend policies that will filter out p0rnography and prevent the unfiltering of computers upon request if the request is to view p0rnography. This is perfectly legal and so devastating for ALA that the library changed its name so it would no longer be associated with the case it lost.
- ALA policies are often hostile to law enforcement. ALA librarians will not report various crimes to police, they will not honor subpoenas, they will delete computer history records to thwart police. Sarah Houghton, the Librarian in Black, even joked about this when speaking at a California Library Association conference. Yes, such records should be protected from public view, but not from legally authorized police investigations.
- ALA policies require deletion of public records, including computer history records, that may run afoul of various state records retention laws. Such laws such be carefully examined, then libraries should be guided accordingly.
- ALA policies encourage use of libraries for activities for which librarians are not trained, are not even wanting to perform, and that other public entities should be doing, for example, social work, handling homelessness and drug usage, and other activities having nothing to do with libraries. ALA librarians, you see, don't want to call police or force people out on the street, so they are beginning to provide services to such people who formerly were removed by police after a call from a librarian. SLA will restore librarianship to librarians, policing to police, and patrons usage will rise as a result.
- ALA policies advise librarians to ignore child p0rnography viewing since librarians are not a component of police and since supposedly only a judge can make a determination of what of child p0rnography and only on a case by case basis. SLA is going to reverse that right away. There will be zero tolerance for child p0rnography. Librarians will no longer fear that if they report child p0rnography to the police, they will be fired. Libraries will not longer receive awards for "intellectual freedom" when they protect child p0rnography crimes. Librarians will no longer be coaxed into filing defamation lawsuits against whistleblowers who uncover child p0rnography coverups. SLA libraries will be run in a manner that prevents child p0rnography as much as possible and that works with, not against, the community to keep as many people as safe as possible. And SLA will not be providing training to lawyers to guide them on how to twist the law to excuse child p0rnography and the like.
→ALA policies create unsafe conditions for children.
- ALA s3xualizes and propagandizes children with alacrity, with gay abandon, with pure joy, and it's going to get worse with its new avowed Marxist president who promised to "wield power" in ALA to create more Marxists. ALA does this by "sneakily" pushing drag story hour into communities, by pushing an ever increasing amount of s3xualized and propagandistic books on school children, and more. SLA is going to reverse that. Say bye bye to Gender Queer in school libraries, that's out. No more This Book Is Gay. And so on. Such books can be in public libraries, but school libraries? Not per SLA policy.
- ALA trains librarians to collude with each other on s3xualizing and propagandizing children, and to do it in a way the public doesn't even know. SLA is going to put a stop to that.
- ALA trains librarians to violate FOIA laws by working to s3xualize and propagandize children by using personal emails and devices so nothing can be learned via FOIA. SLA will teach librarians that exact opposite, that they work for the public, and open government laws are to be respected, not worked around.
- ALA trains librarians to destroy damaging records or not to create such records in the first place. So if a patron is viewing child p0rnography and lifts the dress of a little girl passing by, ALA librarians will simply not write up that incident so it's as if it didn't happen. SLA will advise the exact opposite.
- ALA allows unlimited p0rnography viewing and if anyone complains, the complainer is told to move to a different part of the library. In Florida, a class trip by an elementary school saw a guy view p0rnography, the teacher complained, and the librarian told her to take the class to a different part of the library. SLA will not be training librarians to allow peep shows and to tell complainers not to look. As ALA's chief groomer said, Judith Krug said: "I have a real problem when people say, 'Well I walked by and you should have seen what was on the computer screen.' Well, don't look, sweetie. It's none of your business. Avert your eyes." SLA will not be training librarians to tell patrons to avert your eyes, sweetie.
- ALA goes out of its way to mislead parents about library material for children. Sometimes that includes just flat out lying. Sometimes its by setting policy that book ratings or labeling should never be used, or claiming moving books into the adult section is censorship. Hogwash. SLA will be putting an end to that. Parents and communities will be our partners, not our "dark money" enemies.
About SLA (Safe Libraries Association):
→The tweet that started it all:
Welcome to Texas Library Association @TXLA conference #TXLA23! If I built a library association for #librarians who love America and not Marxism, would you be interested in that, as in being part of that? Contact me. You too at #AASL23 #ALAAC23 #ALAMW23. #lisjobs
— Dan Kleinman of SafeLibraries® đ§ (@SexHarassed) April 19, 2023
WORK IN PROGRESS
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criticism below or contact me.
In the second section #1 can we please work together to keep these books out of school libraries and public libraries? When it states such books can be in public libraries, why is that? They are just as dangerous in a public library. There are people working hard in keeping public library safe as well. Thanks for all your hard work but let’s work together to keep all libraries safe.
ReplyDeleteUnderstood. The new library association can show how a US Supreme Court case applies to keep educationally unsuitable and pervasively vulgar out of school libraries. But no such case of which I'm aware applies to public libraries, besides certain illegal things that are basically not in library collections anyway. So the new library association will provide guidance based on the law, as opposed to ALA that provides diktat based on what the Chicago Marxists want. The new library association will not be a mini ALA, just in the opposite direction. We will give people options, give people the basis for such options, but will not force them to do what we want, like ALA does.
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