Comments on: Kansas School Board Stands Up for Tango http://www.mombian.com/2010/01/19/kansas-school-board-stands-up-for-tango/ Sustenance for Lesbian Moms Thu, 09 Feb 2012 20:39:45 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Jen (yup, another one) http://www.mombian.com/2010/01/19/kansas-school-board-stands-up-for-tango/comment-page-1/#comment-95324 Jen (yup, another one) Thu, 21 Jan 2010 19:53:48 +0000 http://www.mombian.com/?p=6630#comment-95324 Parent access to the PAC from home is an interesting solution, but not one without potential problems of its own. Many book challenges are orchestrated by outside groups and this system could make it easier for such groups to identify schools to target. They would have to find a school parent to work with them, but remote access would make it possible for the parent to check the catalog for a "hit list" or worse, to print out or download the catalog and share it with such a group. These things wouldn't be easy, but home access makes it much simpler than if one had to physically enter the library to find the information. This is the reason that PACs aren't accessible even to staff in my county. Lack of home access makes my day-to-day job tougher but I am glad the protection is there so my time isn't wasted fighting book challenges (other than those that arise organically). I'm also curious how the blocking mechanism works. Can the parent flag a book so that the circulation system will prevent the checkout? If that is true, I *would* like that capacity, although I'd want it restricted to library staff. We do occasionally resolve challenges and concerns by agreeing to limit a child's checkouts according to the parents' desires, but have no technological capacity to implement it and rely instead on feeble human memory. I'd missed this in SLJ. Thanks for pointing it out. Parent access to the PAC from home is an interesting solution, but not one without potential problems of its own. Many book challenges are orchestrated by outside groups and this system could make it easier for such groups to identify schools to target. They would have to find a school parent to work with them, but remote access would make it possible for the parent to check the catalog for a “hit list” or worse, to print out or download the catalog and share it with such a group. These things wouldn’t be easy, but home access makes it much simpler than if one had to physically enter the library to find the information. This is the reason that PACs aren’t accessible even to staff in my county. Lack of home access makes my day-to-day job tougher but I am glad the protection is there so my time isn’t wasted fighting book challenges (other than those that arise organically).

I’m also curious how the blocking mechanism works. Can the parent flag a book so that the circulation system will prevent the checkout? If that is true, I *would* like that capacity, although I’d want it restricted to library staff. We do occasionally resolve challenges and concerns by agreeing to limit a child’s checkouts according to the parents’ desires, but have no technological capacity to implement it and rely instead on feeble human memory.

I’d missed this in SLJ. Thanks for pointing it out.

]]> By: Brian http://www.mombian.com/2010/01/19/kansas-school-board-stands-up-for-tango/comment-page-1/#comment-95294 Brian Tue, 19 Jan 2010 23:51:03 +0000 http://www.mombian.com/?p=6630#comment-95294 Just because something is true doesn't mean it passes some people's standards. Just ask Darwin. Just because something is true doesn’t mean it passes some people’s standards. Just ask Darwin.

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