[Rummyfan]

[Hambone 1934]

WHAT!!!!!! No conservative organizing allowed?????

[uranium penguin]

Come for the Book Burnings!
Stay for the Marxist Lectures!

[Signalman]

With the internet, online books you can download or purchase, online encyclopedias...who needs to go to a library?

[euram]

Association of Jewish Libraries
January 12, 2022 ·
AJL Presents: A Conversation with Emily Drabinski, Candidate for ALA President
Wednesday, January 19, 2022
9:00AM PT / 12:00PM ET
Join AJL’s Emily Bergman in conversation with Emily Drabinski, candidate for ALA president. Ms. Drabinski is Interim Chief Librarian at the Mina Rees Library at the Graduate Center, City University of New York. She has worked in libraries for more than twenty years in positions ranging from looseleaf legal filer to library director. This session will give Ms. Drabinski an opportunity to share her vision for ALA and allow AJL members to discuss issues specific to Judaica librarianship.
This event is open to members and nonmembers.
Register at https://us02web.zoom.us/.../tZYvd...

[econjack]

I don't understand. History is strewn with the wreckage of Social experiments extending back several hundred years, from the Fabian Socialists, New Harmony, Walden, to modern-day Venezuela, and not one has ever persisted. People like Drabinski have sufficient hubris to think they are smarter than anyone in the past 300 years and they will "do it right". When are you economic illiterates going to learn there is no "right" way to do Socialism? It's doomed to failure by its basic premise that people are not motivated by self-interest and the desire to "get ahead". Instead, everyone is forced to sink to the lowest common denominator in the society. The American Dream is not to be the same as everyone else around you.

[dangus]

I remember the fact that ALA praised Castro as he murdered and/or imprisoned thousands of librarians

[No name given]

This “woman” needs a free helicopter ride!
🚁

🤸🏻

[muir_redwoods]

If socialists understood economics, they wouldn’t be socialists.

Every one of these effete socialists imagine themselves as the commissar of poetry and dance. They never see themselves mucking out a stable.

[Fai Mao]

When I was in Library School they were very adamant that libraries were non-political, balanced, and broad. One professor even went to far as to say, “We want to offend everyone, not just 1/2 the people.”

This ideologue should be removed from office.

[SuperLuminal]

Libraries are already sites of socialist organizing...
Have been for many decades...

[Rummyfan]

Meet the Avowed Marxist Who Decides What Books Go in Your School Library

[Albion Wilde]

Not to put too fine a point on it; but saw this today and thought of our conversation the other day. All our assumptions about what should be in American libraries, like being a safe place for children, or a politically neutral zone offering many points of view? Gone by the wayside.