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My community is more interested in reading as an escape 
than to stimulate thinking and ideas. Any 'idea' books 
left on the shelves you can safely bet will represent the 
pervailing mindset. I think our librarians are fairly open 
minded, its just a matter of numbers of what gets ordered 
and community preference as to what gets kept or 
'disappears'.

On Tue, 28 Oct 2008 07:29:03 -0700 (PDT)
 bob ford <bobford79 AT yahoo.com> wrote:
> Libraries use to "disappear" Henry Miller and Wm. S. 
> Burroughs.  Now, it is more likely to be provocative 
> political lit; and the bent dependent on where you live. 
>
> very hard to find certain conservative authors in urban 
> libraries.  Librarians must receive many requests first, 
> and then still get in a snit.  Librarians have much power 
> in community, as do booksellers.  Internet has thankfully 
> mediated much of that power ..... bobford
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> --- On Tue, 10/28/08, eureka AT hctc.net <eureka AT hctc.net> 
> wrote:
>
> > From: eureka AT hctc.net <eureka AT hctc.net>
> > Subject: Re: [Homestead] Old books
> > To: homestead AT lists.ibiblio.org
> > Date: Tuesday, October 28, 2008, 8:23 AM
> > This is true here. I don't use the library much because 
> > they don't often order books I read. The general 
> > population wants fluffy fiction, so that's what they 
> > serve. All controversial books conveniently
> > "disappear" 
> > from their holdings, no doubt incinerated in someone's 
> > burn pile.
> >
> > But they provide good kid's programs and Internet
> > access, 
> > and a charming location for community building so we 
> > always help them raise money. They get almost nothing 
> > from 
> > the government.
> >
> > --Sage
> >
> > On Mon, 27 Oct 2008 14:55:49 -0800
> >   "Lynda" <lurine AT softcom.net> wrote:
> > > Well, a well stocked library could be construed as
> > being 
> > >anti any government 
> > > as it gives one the opportunity to read about things 
> > >most governments don't 
> > > want you to know. <g>
> > > 
> > > Most modern interpretations of socialism = forced 
> > >sharing.  Libraries don't 
> > > force sharing.  And, before anyone jumps on the taxes 
> > >bandwagon, most 
> > > libraries get most/a lot of their funding from local 
> > >folks doing fundraising 
> > > and from book sales!
> > > 
> > > Lynda
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