Friends of Cuban Libraries writes “Nat Hentoff has issued a new blast in the Village Voice (http://www.villagevoice.com/news/0507,hentoff,61
The letters to Castro from American librarians – who cannot understand why their national governing [ALA] council has abandoned their fellow librarians in Cuba – have not been answered. And one… U.S. public library, in Vermillion, South Dakota, has sponsored and begun to send books to a sister independent library in Havana…. This reverberating act of simple decency was begun by one person, Mark Wetmore….. Wetmore keeps on keeping on. He has now written a guide, ‘Sponsoring an Independent Cuban Library,’ that lays out ‘the steps a library board in this country’ can take to join the freedom caravan….”
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