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every library has a human being going through, by hand, and deciding what comes in, what goes out, and what is on "reserve", "special collections", a children's
by doubloon 2y ago
every library has a human being going through, by hand, and deciding what comes in, what goes out, and what is on "reserve", "special collections", a children's section, a fiction section, a non-fiction section, and on and on and on. libraries do not typically put an emphasis on "how to make a bomb" books. yes you could find one in certain libraries, but its not like there is an entire section dedicated to it, nor will it be featured in the public display nor will it be in the children's section. the purpose of it being there is not to help people make bombs, it is for research. if you came in there every single day with meth spots asking for the "bomb making book", that book would be taken out of circulation. much like the purpose of playboy in some archival libraries is not so patrons can go jerk off in the bathroom, but so that people can go read old interviews. libraries are nothing like the internet nor are they like AI. if a bunch of crackheads wander in asking how to make crack, the librarian does not point out to them the crack making manuals.
- skissane 2y ago> if you came in there every single day with meth spots asking for the "bomb making book", that book would be taken out of circulation Do libraries commonly remove books from their collection because unsavoury people are reading them too much? There must be millions of libraries in the world, so I’m sure that kind of thing must have happened at some point - but I’ve never heard of it happening before, which makes me doubt it is common. The libraries most likely to contain “bomb making tutorials” are academic research libraries, national libraries, etc - and those are the kind of libraries least likely to remove items due to these kinds of concerns.