by | October 7, 2011 · 09:22
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Protesting Librarians

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  1. pfanderson
    November 15, 2011 at 15:04

    Is this image available in flickr? I’d love to embed it in a blogpost. Of course, I’m a librarian, and a poet, and this gets to me. Although, librarianship is a radical profession, and ought to be!

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  2. mikecane
    October 8, 2011 at 12:41

    Any librarian who lets personal politics dictate what goes on a bookshelf is betraying a sacred trust.

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    • Michael
      October 8, 2011 at 12:44

      I agree with you Mike! We have a zero tolerance policy for censorship at the People’s Library. Everything that is donated goes into the stacks, and we’re doing all our structural work as a library here on this blog to keep it open and transparent.

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      • Mandy Henk
        October 8, 2011 at 12:59

        I second that. We accept all donations and points of view. Every idea deserves a level playing field.

        Mandy Henk

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  3. Lois Lane
    October 8, 2011 at 10:32

    Red Stocking Grandma, with all due respect, you need to get outside NY more. There are many, many, many conservative & censorial librarians out there in the United States, and a lot of them are Republicans. Librarians, as a demographic, are no different than any other US demographic, except there are so few people of color & so few disabled workers in the field.

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    • Michael
      October 8, 2011 at 12:11

      I have to add that my Mom was denied a job working at a public library once when they asked her “Which church do you go to?” and she said “none.”

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  4. Redstocking Grandma (@RedstockingGran)
    October 7, 2011 at 22:18

    Librarians have a splendid record as stalwart defenders of freedom of speech and the right to read banned books. I have never met a Republican public librarian in 25 years of working in Long Island libraries.

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  5. Michael
    October 7, 2011 at 09:27

    <3 this, thanks for posting!

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