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Feb. 1st, 2010 09:57 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
gilanaYou know, if one person, just one person does it they may think he's really sick and they won't take him.
And if two people, two people do it, in harmony, they may think they're both faggots and they won't take either of them.
And three people do it, three, can you imagine, three people walking in singin' a bar of Alice's Restaurant and walking out. They may think it's an organization.
And can you, can you imagine fifty people a day, I said fifty people a day walking in singin' a bar of Alice's Restaurant and walking out. And friends they may think it's a movement.
A friend who works at the BPL tells me that the Powers That Be have decided that the library as a system does not weed enough. They want to move to a system where any book (regardless of what it is) that has not gone out in two years according to the computer will be weeded. That is an ultimate system-wide goal, but they have further decided that they don't weed enough in the children's room specifically, so they will be running reports and sending in other staff people to do it for them, STARTING THIS WEEK.
I spent a lot of time in my local library growing up. I read a lot of the current favorites, but I also loved finding old books, unpopular books, obscure books, with stories and characters that spoke to me and helped me to believe that I was ok, that I would not be alone and friendless forever, helped me to get to be the person I am today. I'd really like for other kids to have that opportunity too, for majority rule to not be the way the library decides which books are worthwhile.
So here's my plan. If you can, go to the library. Check out your old favorite books -- books that changed your life, books that make you smile to remember them, books that you'd like that special kid to be able to stumble upon even if it's not Harry Potter or Twilight. You don't have to read them, heck, you don't even have to take them home -- you can just turn around and return them as soon as you've checked them out, if you want to.
If you have a book you love and you can't make it in, let me know, I'll try to find it and check it out myself (and probably read it, and maybe even buy a copy for my sister's kids.)
And if you like the idea, spread the word!
And if two people, two people do it, in harmony, they may think they're both faggots and they won't take either of them.
And three people do it, three, can you imagine, three people walking in singin' a bar of Alice's Restaurant and walking out. They may think it's an organization.
And can you, can you imagine fifty people a day, I said fifty people a day walking in singin' a bar of Alice's Restaurant and walking out. And friends they may think it's a movement.
A friend who works at the BPL tells me that the Powers That Be have decided that the library as a system does not weed enough. They want to move to a system where any book (regardless of what it is) that has not gone out in two years according to the computer will be weeded. That is an ultimate system-wide goal, but they have further decided that they don't weed enough in the children's room specifically, so they will be running reports and sending in other staff people to do it for them, STARTING THIS WEEK.
I spent a lot of time in my local library growing up. I read a lot of the current favorites, but I also loved finding old books, unpopular books, obscure books, with stories and characters that spoke to me and helped me to believe that I was ok, that I would not be alone and friendless forever, helped me to get to be the person I am today. I'd really like for other kids to have that opportunity too, for majority rule to not be the way the library decides which books are worthwhile.
So here's my plan. If you can, go to the library. Check out your old favorite books -- books that changed your life, books that make you smile to remember them, books that you'd like that special kid to be able to stumble upon even if it's not Harry Potter or Twilight. You don't have to read them, heck, you don't even have to take them home -- you can just turn around and return them as soon as you've checked them out, if you want to.
If you have a book you love and you can't make it in, let me know, I'll try to find it and check it out myself (and probably read it, and maybe even buy a copy for my sister's kids.)
And if you like the idea, spread the word!
