Reina Takata, a Grade 10 student, said a librarian told her and other students that “if the shelves look emptier right now, it’s because we have to remove all books prior to 2008.”
Tom Ellard, a spokesman for the advocacy group Libraries not Landfills, said the Peel board guidelines on weeding appear to direct librarians to follow a three-step process, with the first one appearing to place a 15-year age limit on books. The school board said in a statement provided to CBC that the school board “works to ensure that the books available in our school libraries are culturally responsive, relevant, inclusive, and reflective of the diversity of our school communities and the broader society.”
He said a Peel Region landfill recently contacted his group to say they are looking to hire new staff just to help them destroy the large amounts of books they are receiving.
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