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[bob ford <bobford79 AT yahoo.com>]

"reading as an escape" ? then surely you have miller --both tropics; 
burroughs -- naked lunch, and junkie ?  But, to most that 'would' stimulate 
ideas, and possibly not of desirable type :-) ....bobf
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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: bobford79 AT yahoo.com, homestead AT lists.ibiblio.org
> Date: Tuesday, October 28, 2008, 9:03 AM
> 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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