Destiny? That's fucking dystopian.

Forsyth County Schools [in Georgia are] planning for changes to media centers, book challenges in 2022-23 year

The system is a dominant library management solutions provider and it's owned by a private equity firm...

Follett School Solutions Sold to Private Equity Firm | American Libraries Magazine

What does acquisition of dominant library management solutions provider mean for K–12 libraries?

A school library system vendor has "begun working on" the ability to automatically notify parents when their kids check a book out of the school library and to allow parents to prevent kids their kids from checking out books on certain topics. This sucks.

Feel free to let @FollettLearning know what you think :)

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If you are a Follett Destiny library, now would be a very good time to talk to them about your concerns about the option being built into the systems that you and your students use.

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  • Daireon [he/him]
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    2 years ago

    As the resident commie school librarian I am speechless. This is completely antithetical to what they teach in library school. The library censorship all across the country has been getting progressively worse and worse these last few years. Destiny is the library program that is used by huge swaths of school libraries in America and this will lead to very bad outcomes for our children :amerikkka: Most librarians are too lib to realize that the they are the frog in the kettle and it is starting to slowly heat up

    • VernetheJules [they/them]
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      2 years ago

      Guess it's time to start cooking the books

      (I.e. alter the records of who checked out what so kids can safely read in peace)

    • InevitableSwing [none/use name]
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      2 years ago

      I didn't know a thing about Destiny until I saw the tweet. To be honest - I didn't even read the articles I put in the self-text. Learning more would make me more angry. I'm already very angry. Everything in the US is getting fucked and the only thing saving us from the right-wing abyss are the democrats who are stupid, lazy, incompetent, and delusional.

      I imagine that if a dem pol like Elizabeth Warren knew about this and she was asked about it she might say she was troubled and that it's a disturbing trend and that something should be done. But she'd act as if she were a typical American with zero political power. Me - for example.

      I'm troubled and it's a disturbing trend and something must be done and it must be done in as many states as possible and at the federal level. Will the dems actually do anything on a state or federal level? In blue states - I dunno - maybe? But on a federal level - the dems are useless.

      I don't want to hear DC dems like Warren saying the right things. I want them to fucking do something. Oh, but we can't because of the filibuster. And Manchin. And Sinema. And...