A Request for Reconsideration is a request to reconsider the age-level designation of an item or remove it from the collection entirely. If you would like to recommend an item to be added to the collection please use the Suggest a Purchase.
City of St. Louis residents, individual City property owners, and certain other Library cardholders are eligible to request that we reconsider a particular item in the Library collection or its age-level designation. Other eligible card types are Resident, Nonresident, Educator, Staff and Student eCard, as defined in our circulation policy, opens a new window.
The form can be completed online here, opens a new window or printed from here. A printed form can be returned at any Library location or mailed to the Chief Public Services Officer, St. Louis Public Library, 1301 Olive Street, St. Louis, MO 63103.
The Request for Reconsideration Committee will review and respond by letter or email to the request.
Please note that:
-
Incomplete forms cannot be considered
-
A form must be filled out for each individual item requested for reconsideration
-
During the review period, the material in question will remain available to the public
-
An item that has already been reconsidered will not be evaluated again until a year has passed
