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["Lynda" <lurine AT softcom.net>]

Wow, sure glad I don't live in your states!  If the book exists in a library 
OR college libarry anywhere, I can get it from my little bitty "Can't Get 
Here From There" Nowheresville library.  Walk in, check the online searchy 
function thingy and then fill out the card.  A week or two, sometimes more 
because someone somewhere might have it checked out, and I've got any book 
in the world!

Lynda
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "bob ford" <bobford79 AT yahoo.com>


> 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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