the Russian library is obliged to give books, strictly observing age-related marking. And the books marked “18+” will now either be stored in separate closed cabinets, located out of reach of children or in the halls, serving exclusively adult readers. The new rules prepared by the Ministry of culture of the Russian Federation, the corresponding order was published in “Rossiyskaya Gazeta”.
in the document, In particular: “Libraries, visitors and (or) users were individuals below the age of eighteen, within their premises and territories libraries are obliged to create conditions for the inaccessibility for children embed information products with the marking “18+” or with a text warning “prohibited for children”.
Books, pamphlets and periodicals, contain information that is “prohibited for distribution among children,” the librarians offer to hide away from the eyes of younger visitors. Selecting literature for a private room or at least lockable wardrobe, always under the control of the librarian.
to Borrow a book the baby can’t either. The librarian will select and offer him books that are more appropriate according to their age. That, in fact, logical.
However, the libraries previously had given books “age”. Adult books and always tried to lay out on the shelves separately from the children. So in essence the new order establishes a long-established order.
I Hasten to reassure those who have suggested that now teenagers will not be able to borrow library books from the school curriculum. Indeed, the book, for example, Mayakovsky, Sholokhov, Akhmatova, Pushkin, and even sometimes fall into the category of “adults”, but is marked “16+”. And under the new order they fall.
Age labelling of books, introduced in Russia in 2012, not the first time it appears in the center of attention. The proposed scale: 0+, 6+, 12+, 16+, 18+ and assessment criteria was not applicable to real life. Sometimes even the absurd. So, the school refused to sell Yesenin’s poems, because the book is marked “16+”. To correct this misunderstanding can the bill prepared by the Committee on culture of RF state Duma. The deputies proposed to abolish all the intermediate category, leaving only one – “18+”, as well as prohibit to carry to books for adults works from the school program.
