by Mandy Henk | October 7, 2011 · 09:22

Filed under Mandy, Photographs

8 responses to “Protesting Librarians”

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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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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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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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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Michael

October 7, 2011 at 09:27

<3 this, thanks for posting!

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