The central branch of the Ottawa Public Library is seen from Metcalfe Street on Jan. 11, 2024.
Challenges cited allegations of racism and hatred, as well as supposedly inaccurate or age-inappropriate content, but all were rejected.The Ottawa Public Library denied all formal requests to remove materials from its collection last year.
pro-Kremlin political scientist and former television propagandist who has made threatening comments about nuclear warfare against the United StatesA French-language children's picture book about the stegosaurus, with a subtitle that translates as "the friendliest of dinosaurs," was challenged as racist.
"We set a very high bar," he said. "Just because one person may find something offensive to their personal views doesn't mean the library should not be carrying it." "I had to sign off on them and I can't think I signed off on more than a couple," she said. "Most complaints were about what wasn't in the library."Now she's seeing a well-organized movement in the United States looking to pull books focusing on gender or racial issues out of libraries.'We are not here to censor'
Mills said people sometimes come to libraries with lists of hundreds of books they want to see removed. But she said it's still essential to have a process that responds to public concerns, reviews them and reports back with an answer.
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