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There was an article in the NY Times about a sectio of the NY Public
library that was closed due to lead contamination of the collections...like in
the past few days or so. Lisa---- Original Message -----
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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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Urges Congress To Correct Law That Inadvertently Targets Libraries,
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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
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USA
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"Try kindness first."
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From: Don Wood
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Subject: [alacro-l] ALA Urges Congress To Correct
Law That Inadvertently Targets Libraries, Publishers
To:
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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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Best regards,
Jenni Terry
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