"I appreciate that not everyone wants their children to have access to my book, but those people need to understand that there are other families who do want their children to have access to it. No one has the right to decide what should and should not be available for everyone else to read."
Dori Hillestad Butler, author of My Mom's Having a Baby
The following procedures should be followed if, after discussing the questioned resource, no resolution is made.
The following steps will be used when an individual feels that further action is necessary to address concerns about a library resource. For the duration of this process, the material in question will remain in circulation in the library collection.
Academic Library Procedures for Handling Formal Complaints
A patron who would like to file a complaint regarding a library resource must complete and submit a written request for reconsideration form. This written request will be reviewed by the library director and dean of college, and a determination will be made in accordance with the library and college’s policy and procedures. The patron will receive a final written response to the submitted request for reconsideration within 90 days of the library receiving the request.