It's not there because it is readily available in many US public and college libraries. If it isn't in your institution's collection your librarian will happily help you order it from from a nearby one.
Librarians around the US have been doing mass purges of older books, especially politically sensitive older books and often for political reasons. There’s lots of news on this, if you’re interested. The problem also exists in Canada. I just checked my local library SYSTEM- consisting of about a dozen libraries - and it is in fact nowhere in there. It’s possible that, were my ILL privileges not restricted for “excessive use” (I don’t read new books, so nearly all my checkouts were ILl), that they would condescend to get it to me that way. Of course, they might not. And ILL has tighter restrictions and is more inconvenient. The primary mission of libraries today is not education, preservation of knowledge, or even literacy. The old mission statements are all dead. It’s entertainment and community support.
Either way, this is a silly argument. All these “banned” books are also readily available in your public library - they’re pop lit, your local library likely has more copies of Maas than all the Greek writers of antiquity combined.
Edit: on page 2 of 11, I have already counted 62 copies of Sarah J Maas book. As an institution for serving the public entertainment, my library system is doing great.
Considering your hallucinations about "mass purges of older books" I would consider your claim about Mein Kampf not being found in your "local library SYSTEM" as bs. You haven't checked, don't know how to check, or don't know what a "local library SYSTEM" is. It is unfortunate that utter falsehoods about how public libraries work are used to justify or somehow "balance" banning books about adolescence.
It’s unfortunate that people believe modern libraries are the educational and literary sanctums envisioned by their founders rather than modern entertainment and community centers.
Search for “deaccessioning” and “equity based weeding” and you will find all the information you could wish for. The classics are being thrown into dumpsters or pulped to make room for more computers and Sarah J Maas. In one particularly egregious Canadian case, all books published before 2008 were destroyed. In many cases this is politically driven.
Perhaps you know how the use to work, but not how they do now. It’s very grim. Many invaluable niche works, particularly of local history but also of technical subjects, have now been destroyed forever by librarians. The assumption too is that everything is probably digitized somewhere so it doesn’t even matter. Cultural and political and funding concerns as actual literacy has declined have completely subsumed that original purpose of libraries.
> You haven't checked, don't know how to check, or don't know what a "local library SYSTEM" is.
There’s no need to call me a liar. I read quite a lot and end up buying nearly all my books nowadays because the library system rarely had even very notable older books, but I still check. It takes about 30 seconds to type into the collection search bar. I did, in fact, look before I wrote that comment. Perhaps you should have not been so sure when you wrote your original comment that it was definitely there. Meanwhile, Maas has at least several dozen and I would suppose a few hundred copies of her books in the system. So, according to you it’s no big deal if the book is in the public library - well I can assure you Maas is several times more likely to be in any local public library than Hitler, so it sounds like there’s nothing to be concerned about. Your comment is entirely applicable to these Maas books: “ its not there because it is readily available in many US public and college libraries. If it isn't in your institution's collection your librarian will happily help you order it from from a nearby one.”
Sorry sir, but yes, there is an emphatic need to call you a liar and a spreader of online manure. Liars like you deceive people and create dangerous falsehoods.
