how's your week going, Beehaw
how's your week going, Beehaw
we're so back. anyways as you can tell by the other pinned post, we've been a little busy with a lot of stuff on the backend and that's probably going to continue into the foreseeable future
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Starting off rough, honestly. Local citizens where I live are fucking with the public library and it’s infuriating and depressing and frustrating and I feel powerless to stop them because the majority of the people here are okay with it.
What exactly are they doing with the library?
Trying to get books relocated/removed because they find them “obscene” (i.e. featuring gay characters or addressing things like racism). This kind of nonsense has been happening in a lot of libraries around the US, sadly.
Oh no..
Is this a situation where people with the loudest voices get their way, or is there some board pushing their views on the population?
What kind of recourse do you have in such situations?
Asking out of concern and interest, feel free to leave it at this if you don’t want to go into it.A little of both, actually. Not sure what the recourse is, which is part of the distress.
But…coincidentally I just found out the city is hosting a book drive for literacy awareness this week, so my book club is donating copies of all of the books that have been removed to the book drive. Not much but it’s honest work, I guess!
I guess that means my week is improving!
Sorry to hear about your library, it's awful when a place that's supposed to have a positive influence on people gets treated like that.
At least the book drive will make up for things, a little bit.. It's great that you manage to put a positive spin on things.
I hope the drive will be a success, best of luck!