A group of Winnipeg academics is urging change to new security screening measures at the Millennium Library, which they say contradicts the goal of public libraries and fall hardest on the people who need the library the most. An open letter from the group of close to 40 faculty members and librarians calls airport-style security screening at the downtown library invasive, demeaning, time-consuming and ultimately exclusionary. Harmful to reconciliation: letterThe screening doesn't fit with the City of Winnipeg's goal of reconciliation, Perry said. The new security measures cost $30,000 and no new staff were needed. Perry said the academics who signed the letter want to raise questions about the decision-making process that went into the security measures, and what evidence it was based on.

Source: CBC News April 19, 2019 23:03 UTC