Anonymous Patron writes “www.starbanner.com See both article “Library Advisory Board abolished” and editorial “Taking Care of Business?”
Ocala and its ongoing library/power politics issue. County commissioners Tuesday did away with the county’s Library Advisory Board and took direct control over book challenges and other library system policies.”
We’ll see what happens
The challenge policy wasn’t mentioned by the 3 commissioners who approved the change, so we’ll have to wait and see. Perhaps it’s nothing more than an attempt to streamline the decision making process. Or, it could be an attempt to inject themselves into the book challenge process. Time will tell. I’m hoping that if there intent is to mess with the library and make it easier to remove books from the shelves that they will be looking for new employment at the next election.
Re:We’ll see what happens …) perhaps some conscientious citizens can overwhelm them with systematic individual challenges on large innocuous portions of the collection.
Or (if the intent is to mess with the library
I’ve found that exaggerated responses can sometimes serve as a wake-up call to micro-managers.
Re:We’ll see what happens
You mean sorta like what the Wobblies did in Spokane?
“In Spokane, Washington, in 1909, an ordinance was passed to stop street meetings, and an IWW organizer who insisted on speaking was arrested. Thousands of Wobblies marched into the center of town to speak. One by one they spoke and were arrested, until six hundred were in jail. Jail conditions were brutal, and several men died in their cells, but the IWW won the right to speak.”
IWW.ORG