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  • From: <eureka AT hctc.net>
  • To: bobford79 AT yahoo.com, homestead AT lists.ibiblio.org
  • Subject: Re: [Homestead] Old books
  • Date: Tue, 28 Oct 2008 09:03:25 -0600

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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