Trigger warnings or content warnings for books or publications in the library - Find a freedom of information request

1. Whether your libraries have trigger warnings or content warnings for any of their books or publications. 

2. If they do, please state the total number of trigger warnings or content warnings for books or publications in your libraries. 

3. Please state if your libraries have trigger warnings or content warnings for any children's' books.

4. Please also state whether the following books have warnings or notices and, if yes, what the warning or notice says:

a) Lord of the Flies by William Golding

b) Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain

c) Grimms' Fairy Tales

d) Where the Wild Things Are by Maurice Sendak

e) Lady Chatterley's Lover by D. H. Lawrence

f) Any of the Harry Potter series by J. K. Rowling

g) Animal Farm by George Orwell

h) Any of the works of Shakespeare

i) Peter Pan by James Matthew Barrie4. Please provide the policy, if one exists, for determining what notices and warnings to apply to books and publications in your libraries and in what instances.

 

1. No

2. No

3. No

4. N/a

Lincolnshire libraries, follow the CILIP (library and information association) guidance that states access should not be restricted on any grounds but the law and any legal basis of any restriction should always be stated.

Fundamentally, the service does not reject material because it is controversial and inclusion in the collection does not imply endorsement of work.