• Tolookah@discuss.tchncs.de
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    1 year ago

    The backfire:

    Soon, she would get her answer: Stacks of Amazon boxes containing new copies of the books the protesters checked out started to arrive at the library after The San Diego Union-Tribune reported on the protest. Roughly 180 people, mostly San Diegans, gave more than $15,000 to the library system, which after a city match will provide over $30,000 toward more L.G.B.T.Q.-themed materials and programming, including an expansion of the system’s already popular drag queen story hours.

    (Stolen from article)

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    Mr. Burch said that his group does not encourage supporters to break the law. But, he said, if one decides to keep a book indefinitely, “that’s perfectly fine.”

    I just…who’s going to tell him?

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    What I don’t get is how they were able to take out this many books - I understand (and generally agree with) policies to limit library fines, but that doesn’t mean you have to let people take out enough books to clear out an entire section.

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      Most libraries won’t stop you from checking things out unless you are already have unpaid fines.

      In my schooling days I had occasion to check out like 20 books a couple times. I got some questions about why, but it was more curiosity and I even got a few suggestions for more books on the topic at hand.

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        Sure, but isn’t there usually a limit of like 20 or 30 books at a time? And you can’t take out more books after that without a) returning some of the old ones or b) admitting some of them are lost and paying to replace them.

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          From reading the article, it sounds like multiple people were involved. So, for example, I take out 20 books, then you take out 20 books, and then another person takes out 20 books. Between the 3 of us, we’ve now taken 60 books and not hit any limits.

          Using this system, a small group of extremists could remove material from the library that they have decided is objectionable regardless of whether everyone else in their community thinks it is.