[Sca-librarians] Sca-librarians] Children's Books...

[Suzanne]

Um, m'lady... I take it you're an amateur lawyer, too?

The law has been passed.  It will take effect in just a few weeks.   
How do you propose to make it what it isn't?  Please read the reports  
on the ramifications of this badly-worded legislation before you make  
any more impossible recommendations.

Susanna de l'Essart
[mundanely a former law librarian]

On Jan 26, 2009, at 12:00 PM, sca-librarians- 
request at lists.gallowglass.org wrote:

> Message: 2
> Date: Sun, 25 Jan 2009 21:37:40 -0500
> From: Solveig Throndardottir <nostrand at acm.org>
> Subject: Re: [Sca-librarians] Children's Books, a Lead danger?
> To: sca-librarians at lists.gallowglass.org
> ...
> Noble Librarians!
>
> Greetings from Solveig! The rather obvious approach is for the law
> simply to not be retroactive. E.g. all books sold after 2009 JULY 01
> must be "lead free". I suppose that books published prior to a known
> lead safe date could be stickerred as possibly containing lead. There
> really shouldn't be a problem unless the children chew on the books.
>
> Your Humble Servant
> Solveig Throndardottir
> Amateur Scholar

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