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Sent: 1/12/2009 10:16:47 A.M. Eastern
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Subj: [aic-board] Fwd: [padg] FW: [tfoe] Fw: [alacro-l] ALA
Urges Congress To Correct Law That Inadvertently Targets Libraries,
Publishers
Lunacy.
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Date: Mon, 12 Jan 2009 09:14:59
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Thread-Topic: [tfoe] Fw: [alacro-l] ALA Urges Congress To Correct
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Has anyone heard about or responded to
this?
Ian
From: Jonathan Betz-Zall
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Sent: Friday, January 09, 2009 4:37
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Subject: [tfoe] Fw: [alacro-l] ALA
Urges Congress To Correct Law That Inadvertently Targets Libraries,
Publishers
Does anyone have any hard information on the
presence of lead in books or other library materials? We might be able to
help ALA respond appropriately if we can uncover some reliable information
on this topic.
Cheerio! Jonathan
Jonathan
Betz-Zall
http://ecolibrarian.org
Seattle, Washington,
USA
jbetzzall@xxxxxxxxx
"Try kindness first."
--- On Fri,
1/9/09, Don Wood <dwood@xxxxxxx> wrote:
From: Don Wood
<dwood@xxxxxxx>
Subject: [alacro-l] ALA Urges Congress To Correct
Law That Inadvertently Targets Libraries, Publishers
To:
alacro-l@xxxxxxx
Date: Friday, January 9, 2009, 8:09 AM
CPSC ruling requires children's books
to be removed for safety testing
WASHINGTON, D.C. - The American
Library Association (ALA) released a letter to Congress yesterday, urging
members to take action against a recent opinion ruling released from the
General Counsel of the Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC) that would
require public, school, academic and museum libraries to either remove all
their books or ban all children under 12 from visiting the facilities,
beginning on February 10.
The opinion was issued to the Association of
American Publishers (AAP), following the group's request to exclude
children's books from regulation under the Consumer Product Safety
Improvement Act (CPSIA), which passed the 110th Congress in August and is
enforced by the CPSC.
Under the CPSC's interpretation of the law,
which seeks to protect children from exposure to lead and phthalate, books
for children under the age of 12 are required to undergo the same testing
procedures as children's toys. Since the General Counsel's opinion is
retroactive, all books currently on library or store shelves must be removed
for testing, including textbooks and children's literature books in academic
library research collections.
The publishing community has supplied the
Commission with evidentiary support (available at www.rrd.com/cpsia ) that
books and other non-book, paper-based printed materials should not be
subject to the lead, phthalate, and applicable ASTM standards that are
referenced in CPSIA because they do not present any of the health or safety
risks to children that the law intended to address.
ALA President Jim Rettig said he agrees that
books do not pose a threat to children and should not be subject to
regulation.
"The CPSC should enforce this important
legislation where the dangers are - not with books, which are not playthings
and should remain unregulated," Rettig said.
"I sincerely doubt that Congress intended to
require libraries to be subject to this law, but if Congress does not act
soon, libraries across the country will be forced to remove books from the
shelves, rather than keep them available to serve the educational needs of
our nation's children."
The ALA's letter to Congress can be viewed
here.
You may view the latest post
at
http://www.wo.ala.org/districtdispatch/?p=1322
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received this e-mail because you asked to be notified when new updates are
posted.
Best regards,
Jenni Terry
jterry@xxxxxxxxxxx
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