Posted on 11/10/2019 7:55:26 PM PST by karpov
COEUR d’ALENE, Idaho — From her office next to the public computer terminals, Bette Ammon finds herself peering through a window to watch patrons moving through the Coeur d’Alene library’s nonfiction stacks.
Someone has been hiding books lately — specifically, those that explore politics through a progressive lens, or criticize President Trump. They wind up misfiled in out-of-the-way corners where readers will be sure not to find them.
“I am going to continue hiding these books in the most obscure places I can find to keep this propaganda out of the hands of young minds,” the mystery book relocator wrote in a note left for Ms. Ammon, the library director, in the facility’s comment box. “Your liberal angst gives me great pleasure.”
For decades, Coeur d’Alene has navigated a delicate political landscape in northern Idaho, a conservative corner of the country where some have sought refuge from political and social changes elsewhere.
The incidents over this past year — including a missing book that was discovered only this week — were not the first time books have mysteriously disappeared. Thirty years ago, the library lost so many books on human rights to theft that they had to be placed in a locked cabinet. The latest works to be targeted cover a wide range of topics, from gun control and women’s suffrage to LGBTQ issues and how people of color fare in the criminal justice system. About half the books specifically deal with President Trump.
While none of the books in the latest incidents appear to have been stolen, some have been hidden in ways that made it nearly impossible to find them when patrons wanted to check them out. They have been discovered inexplicably filed in the wrong sections, hidden behind a row of Stuart Woods novels
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it’s just a silly waste of time.You might find this hard to accept but what other people do with their time is none of your business.
Thanks for the early morning chuckle ,-)
“Well, at least the books aren’t being stolen or destroyed, like the leftists do to our yard signs.”
Face the sign to the road and coat the back edges with a few inches roofing tar. It won’t come off and will ruin everything it comes in contact with...clothes, car interiors,...
Most signs are stolen at night and in the dark they won’t even know what it is until it’s too late. Then they will have no choice to either get it all over their car, or walk/run home.
If trolling a librarian is making the news, I’m sure it was extensively covered.
I would’ve asked, “Shall I burn it?
That seals it.
Idaho is the place to be!
(Even if they’re ass deep in snow come February!)
I often donate my conservative books to my local library via the book drop. Sometimes they do put them out.
“Wouldn’t it be a hoot to see little calling cards left on library shelves that said:
EPSTEIN DIDN’T KILL HIMSELF! “
Hey, about the children’s section.
Great idea.
The American Library Association has weaponized the public library and turned it into a social workers paradise for the traumatized - see
Trauma Informed Library Transformation. https://www.socialworker.com/feature-articles/practice/trauma-informed-library-transformation-next-step-in-library-social-work/
Library cards need warning labels for parents to tell them that the card gives kids access to pornographic databases online at home like EBSCO. Libraries are now in the child sex business - and the only thing they think is illegal is child pornography - explicit stuff - not the soft stuff. Beware libraries - your public tax dollars are at work.
massresistance.org
I may have been known to turn a book around to show the back cover if written by a liberal.
Guilty at Costco.
Barnes n Noble, the library.
I’ll have to admit, I do this every time I go to the library.
Gee, that’s too bad...
Great idea!
LMAO
Reputation? The American Library Association and the Modern Language Association have been pushing a radical agenda in libraries and education since the late 60s early 70s.
The effective agents of change in the cultural war for several generations, exerting control of print, speech, and political agendas of America's children.
Where do you think millies, Gen X, and the snowflakes sprang from? Antifa are their offspring. They have been the political commissars and they are good at what they do.
We lost this battle at the local level long ago.
Last time I was in the public library there was three homeless person’s watching porn on the computers and another one standing face into a corner reciting Shakespeare at the top of his lungs. I haven’t been back.
I may have mis-shelved books on one or more topics from time to time.
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