Half of Community Colleges in North Carolina were tracking book check-outs.
March 11, 2024
On January 1st, half of all community colleges across the state of North Carolina had their patron checkout history tracking turned on, compulsorily, for every patron;
Both child and adult.
No one was allowed to discuss the situation beforehand. Bureaucrats just did it. And then required each school to perform unnecessary steps to undo it. Several schools went through those steps immediately because this kind of record keeping is entirely antithetical to library practice. But not all of them have.
Social-Emotional Learning in the Library
Libraries make an ideal environment for cultivating valuable SEL skills in young people.