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Rebecca Eaton shared a link. Yesterday at 6 05pm
Ok, guys. Liberal librarian in a rural community here. My heart is really hurting today. I am in charge of acquisitions for our adult collection, and I saw this book on Publisher's Weekly's Top 25 Hardcover Nonfiction list. I know that I need to be aware of my bias and not censor information, but it honestly brings tears to my eyes to think that I should probably purchase this for our patrons. Has anyone else had to purchase a book for your library that makes you want to cringe or hide in a corner to cry? UPDATE: I decided against purchasing it, and I am keeping my fingers crossed that no one requests it. And if someone does request it, the answer is no; I cannot argue with them about whether or not the library should own it. I must honor my patron's request. But I will do so with an eye twitch as I awkwardly smile and comply. The eye twitch counts for something, right?
No Go Zones: How Sharia Law Is Coming to a Neighborhood Near You
No Go Zones. That's what they're called. And while the politically correct try to deny their existence, the shocking reality of these "No Go Zones"—where… AMAZON.COM
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Share 32 Ashley Odell Do you have to buy all bestsellers? Does this actually meet your collection development policy? It wouldn't meet ours ‑‑ we don't buy political books with limited expected shelf life. Like · 12 · Yesterday at 6 09pm Rebecca Eaton Our patrons love political nonfiction and often eat up conservative titles I've been trying my best to create a balance between my liberal and conservative choices, but some of the new releases are rather upsetting. If I don't order this, past experience tells me that a patron is going to request it anyways Like · Yesterday at 6 20pm Mark Bay So wait for the request, it might not come. Like · 25 · Yesterday at 6 25pm Jill Eroo Do you have to buy everything that's requested? Or do you still go by some standards of critical examination of non fiction? Even if you do buy it, it's just accurately reflecting some toxic views of the time and might be used by someone writing an intelligent rebuttal or op‑ed or something...
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Like · 2 · Yesterday at 7 55pm Ashley Odell Yeah, we definitely don't buy everything that's requested. Every purchase still has to meet our collection development policy, so a lot of political books (left and right) don't make it. Our experience with these sorts of of‑the‑moment political books is that they circulate for about six months, and then people move on to whatever the next big scandal or fear is and the books never get checked out again. So for us, they're not worth the money or shelf space. Larger or more affluent libraries might have a different experience, of course. I'm sure there must be other, more reputable books on the Shariah that would still appeal to conservative readers? Though I think this book is really more about migration than anything philosophical... Like · 1 · 23 hrs Janet Swan Hill I have a friend who would believe every word, and who frequents fear‑mongering anti‑Muslim sites. He is terrified of what he believes to be an imminent Muslim takeover. It breaks my heart. Like · 3 · Yesterday at 6 14pm Cassie Chambliss I would call this "main stream" in a place I know well.. Like · Yesterday at 8 57pm Jenna Ginnaty I don't think a book like this has any place in public libraries. I'm all for representing both sides of an issue, but this is not about someone's opinion, it appears to be reporting false information as fact in order to strike fear and hate. Like · 35 · Yesterday at 6 15pm Hillary Jo You don't have to buy deliberately false material. This is bullshit, I lived next to the largest Muslim community in the US, and there was no sharia law. If they can't do it, this book is all bullshit. Like · 23 · Yesterday at 6 21pm Mary Bush Leoni that's exactly what i was thinking. this may be classified as non‑fiction but is really fiction, or as they call it alternate facts! Like · 3 · Yesterday at 7 54pm · Edited Diedre Conkling Every single Bill O'Reilly book has been a painful purchase. Like · 22 · Yesterday at 6 21pm Evelyn Kaehler I literally have to hold my nose when cataloging anything by Dinesh D'Souza. And I was very glad to see his recent Hillary‑bashing book withdrawn from our collection for low demand. Like · 3 · Yesterday at 8 13pm Jacqueline Smith I feel your pain. Not my cup of tea, but my community requests them. I do manage to get some other stuff in there that makes them think for themselves. Like · Yesterday at 8 16pm Amanda Prokop This is when you need to have a good collection development policy in place. I'm sure this book has zero positive reviews in any reputable resources. Bestseller lists are bullshit to begin with especially with these types of titles. Like · 16 · Yesterday at 6 40pm Kathy Jones Pillatzki No. Our collection development policy states that we include multiple viewpoints on controversial subjects, but specifically excludes propaganda. And I'm the arbiter of what's propaganda. Like · 28 · Yesterday at 6 40pm Rebekah Pele Marie Well, the entire premise is false and sickening, so I'd say Nope to this purchase. Like · 7 · Yesterday at 6 44pm Christy Jones Calhoun Every book from the Left Behind series. Like · 8 · Yesterday at 6 46pm
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Lauren Hussein Seegmiller Pictured: me, when patrons request "that book by Milo with the Greek last name"
Like · 27 · Yesterday at 6 46pm Lauren Hussein Seegmiller I also want to add that I fill their request without saying anything about this book other than where they are on the holds list. Like · 3 · Yesterday at 6 56pm Paula DuPont Milo attacked my friend by name, fuck that guy Like · 11 · Yesterday at 7 13pm Lauren Hussein Seegmiller I also have no part in the selection process so it's already out of my hands. They were gonna ask for it anyway. Like · 2 · Yesterday at 7 21pm Paula DuPont I'm not laying any blame on you, I just never pass up an opportunity to say fuck him Like · 8 · Yesterday at 7 22pm Lauren Hussein Seegmiller I felt compelled to wash my hands after that call. Like · 2 · Yesterday at 7 23pm Mandy Howard Walters I got out of buying this one because I couldn't find reputable reviews. Praise be for that. Like · 4 · Yesterday at 7 31pm Sarah Peterson You should also find one on the dangers of the Christian Taliban who are the real threat in this country ‑ but yes, this one too, sorry Like · 14 · Yesterday at 7 10pm Rebecca Vogler Splain Christian Taliban? So there's a Christian group trying to change laws so rock music would be banned, men would be banned from shaving their faces and girls would be forbidden to go to school? Like · 1 · Yesterday at 7 45pm Sarah Peterson Rebecca Vogler Splain they are trying to take control of women's bodies and lives. They have killed abortion doctors and gay and transsexual people. They are marching as Nazis to threaten all non‑ white, non‑christians. Like · 7 · Yesterday at 8 14pm Sarah Peterson Oh, and sorry, I won't be checking back to continue this conversation ‑ I don't see any benefit to it Like · 1 · Yesterday at 8 17pm Erik Wilkinson
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Like · 23 hrs Erik Wilkinson Rebecca Vogler Splain Or women and girls being raped and stoned? And don't get me started on the honor killings that groups like CAIR suborn and the press conveniently ignore. Like · 1 · 23 hrs Rebecca Vogler Splain Yep, yep, yep. How many abortion doctors have been murdered versus how many murdered by the actual Taliban? Like · 1 · 23 hrs Rebecca Vogler Splain How many LGBT killed by the actual Taliban? Like · 1 · 23 hrs Erik Wilkinson Rebecca Vogler Splain I'm also confounded how liberals go to the mattresses for a religion, Islam, that outside of the West, practices malicious homicide against homosexuals (see, throwing them off buildings). And then imagine that American Christians do the same when it's never been the case. Like · 1 · 23 hrs Erik Wilkinson Rebecca Vogler Splain Too many too count. Like · 23 hrs Melanie Baker Majikas Guess we found the audience for that book here. Like · 2 · 11 hrs Darla Wegener Barney the Dinosaur Videos.
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Like · 5 · Yesterday at 7 12pm Jay Heifenator Bestseller lists are easily manipulated. Just because something is on a bestseller list doesn't mean you'll get asked for it. Like · 8 · Yesterday at 7 31pm Erik Wilkinson Just the Al Franken books Like · 2 · Yesterday at 7 32pm Rebecca Vogler Splain Ugh, can not stand Al Franken. Like · 2 · Yesterday at 7 43pm Mariah Sheehy Tell them to read Irshad Manji. Like · 1 · Yesterday at 7 55pm Rebecca Eaton Usually if someone requests a book like this, I smile and remain silent, and make a mental note to never engage with this person in public. Like · Yesterday at 8 42pm https://www.facebook.com/groups/ALAthinkTANK/permalink/1663140620425418/
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Tiffany Stephenshttps://apnews.com/58606fa07433442ba470a91d374f8926 Here's an interesting twist to this discussion. Apparently the publisher of this book no longer wishes to be included in the NY Times best seller list Conservative publishers wants nothing more to do with Times
NEW YORK (AP) — The company that publishes… APNEWS.COM
Like · 3 · Yesterday at 7 59pm · Edited Angel Smith That's disgusting. Like · 2 · Yesterday at 7 57pm Susan Baker I haven't had to really purchase any cringe worthy books HOWEVER someone did call in and ask for this book today, which my library does not (as of yet) own. Like · 1 · Yesterday at 7 59pm Lisa Marie Hazen The Politically Incorrect Guide to the Civil War. I wanted to burn it, but added it and shelved it properly Like · 1 · Yesterday at 8 04pm Mary Glendening You should get this as an opportunity view. Antifa: The Anti‑Fascist Handbook https://www.amazon.com/.../ref=cm_sw_r_cp_apa_sWZRzbDN57BFR Antifa: The Anti-Fascist Handbook
In the wake of tragic events in Charlottesville, VA, and Donald Trump's initial refusal to denounce the white… AMAZON.COM
Like · 7 · Yesterday at 8 07pm Kristen Northrup Lindgren I've already ordered that one for our collection. Pretty thorough history. Like · 11 hrs · Edited Vanessa Steck Ugh. Do you really have to purchase that? Can't you say it's based on untrue information and therefore you can't...something? Like · 3 · Yesterday at 8 10pm Katrina Hutchins Why do you feel that this book should probably be purchased for your patrons? (Legitimate question, not trolling) Like · 2 · Yesterday at 8 10pm Rebecca Eaton I decided against purchasing it, but it was some sort of Fox News recommendation Meaning that if one of our several patrons who get their political insights from Fox News happens to come across it, then...it will come to my desk as a request Like · 1 · Yesterday at 8 43pm · Edited Katrina Hutchins Rebecca Eaton gotcha ‑ purchased per patron request. It's a horrid piece of (breitbart) investigative propaganda and fear mongering. Even its appearance on the lists has been found suspect (bulk ordering activity), if I am remembering correctly. This would be tough purchase to make. Like · 2 · Yesterday at 9 01pm Kim Heikkinen Rebecca Eaton I was going to bring up the Breitbart part. That in and of itself would disqualify it as a purchase for me, unless a number of patrons requested it, OR it for some unfathomable reason it got starred reviews in legitimate sources. Just because something is a bestseller doesn't mean you *have* to buy it. https://www.facebook.com/groups/ALAthinkTANK/permalink/1663140620425418/
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Like · 1 · 21 hrs Kim Heikkinen Think of it this way: would you quote Breitbart as a reputable, accurate source of information when answering a reference question? Like · 1 · 21 hrs Cassie Chambliss Rebecca Eaton If someone requests it, you can give them access to another library's copy, without using limited library funds to officially legitimize the book. I had a guy in our library spreading these rumors in person about the town just over the mountain, saying there were tanks there *right now* and that's where they were going to put people when it all went down and ISIS took over, got multiple patrons all riled up in an extended conversation about what he saw happening over there, what was going on, etc. But I had just come from there and driven through those exact places, so I could refute his claims directly, which messed up his whole project.(Nobody cares if the folklorist on staff points out all the characteristics of an urban legend...it's more fun to believe. But if I can say I went there and SAW with my own eyes that there were no weapons or tanks, well okay then. ) He just relocated to a different group of people, different story about another town the next county over, just over the mountain.. But patrons were busy for days researching it and actually drove behind the Walmart in the next county to look for barbed wire, looked up whether the govt has been stockpiling guillotines, etc, trying to verify what was going on. It was all total garbage, and he was stirring it up to make people afraid and suspicious, which is not hard to do. And it has serious real world consequences when communities just get riled up with no checks and no reasonable counterpoint. Having inciting materials actually on the library shelves seems like a bad idea. Like · 2 · 19 hrs Rachel Ann Hanan Just move it to the fiction aisle. Like · 5 · Yesterday at 8 17pm Tom Stromboli Less than 2% of the pop is Muslim but nah they totally gonna brainwash your grandma. Like · 10 · Yesterday at 8 20pm · Edited Erik Wilkinson Not sure about brainwashed, but definitely decapitated in this case ‑ ‑ https://www.cbsnews.com/.../police‑woman‑beheaded‑at.../ Police: Woman beheaded at Oklahoma workplace
Authorities say the suspect had been trying to… CBSNEWS.COM
Like · 23 hrs Jessica Lamb Erik yeah because people can really suck and we like to use religion to justify it, or the worst bits of someone's brain hijacks their religious/philosophical/cultural framework and uses it against them (or others). As a Christian I unequivocally repudiate evil done in the name of my God, from the Crusades & the Inquisition to pro‑slavery churches to the Westboro Baptist Church. If I don't want to be lumped in with those guys just because we believe some of the same things, I'm not going to generalize at people of other (or no) faiths. Like · 1 · 23 hrs Erik Wilkinson Jessica Lamb kind of hard not to generalize when the ISIS folk are so overt about it. Do a little digging and you'll find that some of their most rabid followers are science & engineering types, sadly.... Like · 1 · 23 hrs · Edited Tom Stromboli So Muslims kill people in Muslimy ways, and Christians often kill people in Christiany ways, and gangbangers kill people in gangbangery ways. Idk what that has to do with overthrowing local governments tho. Like · 3 · 23 hrs · Edited Jessica Lamb By "the ISIS folk" do we mean actual ISIS and sympathizers or Muslims more broadly? It's not clear from your tone............... Like · 23 hrs Erik Wilkinson Jessica Lamb Those who identify as soldiers of ISIS, i.e this guy in OK, the guys in Garland, TX, the Pulse Nightclub shooter, etc. Fwiw, I work for a medical school and interact everyday with many https://www.facebook.com/groups/ALAthinkTANK/permalink/1663140620425418/
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Muslims, the best people I've ever met professionally. My impression, though, is that many had to leave their home country to experience real freedom, especially the women. Like · 1 · 23 hrs Tom Stromboli Patriarchy comes in many forms, go figure. Like · 1 · 22 hrs Cassie Chambliss Erik Wilkinson You can walk back your "2% Muslim population = beheading" provocation, but you're still in uneducated stereotypeland. You can't conflate religion with country with ISIS, and your "impression" doesn't seem to account for Muslims being 1.8 billion people from all over the globe, some of them present in America from the 1500s. You're making a messy soup of a lot of different issues, just to score a cheap point against Muslims. If ISIS is leading you by the nose to the very conclusions they want you to have, um, don't follow ISIS. Like · 1 hr Dan Haggerty If you feel that you MUST buy this book, then perhaps buy these two also... https://www.amazon.com/Contracting‑Fear.../dp/1498204120 and https://www.amazon.com/What‑American‑Muslim.../dp/0199895694 Contracting Fear: Islamic Law in the Middle East and Middle America
If you've ever read a news story about radical Islam,… AMAZON.COM
Like · 10 · Yesterday at 8 23pm Virginia Howard Yes. Like · Yesterday at 8 43pm Donna Rosinski‑Kauz don't purchase until it gets requested Like · 6 · Yesterday at 8 44pm Melissa Groveman I select for the 300s and this happens to me on a regular basis. My consolations are chocolate and weeding. Like · 10 · Yesterday at 8 46pm Mandy Howard Walters I got a patron request for a similar title a few weeks ago and I was able to say no because of a lack of professional reviews. We already have a very unbalanced collection and I just couldn't in good faith purchase something as inflammatory as this title. Like · 8 · 23 hours ago MaryJane Lowens I agree ‑ this book seems deliberately misleading. I would not buy unless more than one person requested it. Otherwise ILLO! Like · 23 hrs Jo Patrick *IF* you got it, could you file it in Fiction? Like · 3 · 23 hrs Syntha Martin Green That's what ILL is for Like · 8 · 23 hrs Sarah Cody Interlibrary loan Like · 1 · 23 hrs Susan Waterman All of us who have been in collection development have had a cringe moment. As Syntha Martin Green said, ILL may be an option if you can get it. If not, you can add it, but make sure that your collection is balanced. https://www.facebook.com/groups/ALAthinkTANK/permalink/1663140620425418/
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Like · 1 · 23 hrs Andrea Galbusieri I cried a little every time I had to order Ann Coulter books ... Like · 7 · 23 hrs Susan Waterman I went "Icccckk" Like · 2 · 23 hrs Erin Sharwell Showing my age maybe, but The Rules was the one book I just could not. Like · 5 · 23 hrs Marien Ruiz Villaman‑Chodl Still can't! Like · 6 hrs Eliza Wingate I always said I was not doing my job unless I offended someone & that someone was most often me Like · 9 · 23 hrs Erik Wilkinson Amen! Like · 23 hrs Aundrea Coral This is inspiring and I want to print it out and put it on my desk. Like · 21 hrs Jessica Lamb Remember that libraries are also where people who don't want to spend money on this crap but want to have good, specific reasons for standing the heck against it go to get their hands on a copy. (E.g. the ubiquitous Mein Kampf example.) Like · 6 · 23 hrs Becky Coleman Was hoping someone would say this. I'd like to read it for that exact reason. If opponents have any decent arguments, I want to know. If not, good to know, also. Like · 1 · 9 hrs · Edited Susan Waterman Know your enemies. Like · 56 mins Erik Wilkinson Has it been reviewed by Booklist? If so it's recommended for public libraries, correct? #LikePontiusPilateWashHands Like · 1 · 23 hrs Kevin Martin Well, it's categorized correctly, it's fiction. Or is it talking about Christian organizations shutting down Planned Parenthood and teaching creationism? Like · 1 · 20 hrs · Edited Cassie Chambliss So here's a question to put this in perspective: What would the procedure be if the topic were something else? Medical book or history or something else that was absolutely wrong? Consideration of why the false story continues to be so popular: https://www.theatlantic.com/.../paris‑mayor‑to.../384656/ Here's a quick FALSE: http://www.snopes.com/politics/religion/nogozones.asp The library's collection is a curated selection based on SOMETHING, and if nobody locally has expertise, surely you don't surrender the need for expertise somewhere in the pipeline?? Author, publisher, reviewers, ?? There ARE many sources of differing opinions on the roles and history of Islam in the US that are legitimate and factually accurate and not incendiary propaganda, and you can reach out to experts for advice when you need to. It's not only OK to make that determination about an item‑‑it's desperately important and necessary! If you wouldn't add false and potentially harmful health information to the shelves, for heaven's sake don't fan these flames! This isn't a question of politics or bias, it's about *accuracy* and *quality,* something you can check by running your acquisition procedures, including experts somewhere in the loop. (Major news networks are not good curators of expertise, quality, or accuracy. Folklorists can sniff out urban legends like this one that are often passed on by news media.) I'm writing as someone who worked Reference in a rural public library, with professional expertise in Islam and the
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Middle East‑‑I speak Arabic and lived for 7 years in Egypt, documenting religious traditions among Christians and Muslims (not that libraries recognize other kinds of degrees). And I've spent years hanging out in mosques in the US, and with Muslim friends and colleagues. Where I live now, though‑‑97% white, most unexposed to Muslims except through US tv and movies (ha), and that book would be ordinary fare. There's a whole industry of anti‑Islam propagandists that have sprung up to take advantage of susceptible readers and low‑barrier systems, and it's awful to think how easily they get libraries to be complicit. They're working the system and they know it. They benefit from a false and ridiculous "both sides" equivalency that no library should let fly. (I know I'm being preachy, sorry about that! I've had a lot of heartache listening to people tell me all about Islam and Muslims, never once asking a question, not realizing a newcomer to the library/area physically recoiled when she accidentally let slip her native language because it revealed that she was Muslim. I want libraries to be bolder and not afraid to stand up for facts and expertise, but where I am pleasing the customer has won out.) Why the Muslim 'No-Go-Zone' Myth Won't Die
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Like · 6 · 20 hrs · Edited Cassie Chambliss I would add that there are WORLDS of information and programming not coming out in books (or adjacent to books and blogs and tv shows), so getting people into new media is critical. If there's a need for education on a topic like this, by all means, add good books to the collection. But also introduce people to podcasts and blogs and youtube sites with reputable information. It's a way to bypass some of the challenges of traditional media (usually free!) while also getting people directly in touch with people from different backgrounds, different perspectives. If you do it as a program, there's less worry about privacy and the technical stress. Extremely hard to sell in low‑tech‑adoption communities, but SO exciting to see the payoff. Like · 1 · 20 hrs Roberta Branca I see no reason why a library "should" purchase the book before it is even requested and even though you decided against it, I am curious about why you thought you had an obligation? Librarians above all other first amendment professionals tend to think all disagreement counts equally in "debate". It only promotes false equivalencies like "the age of the Earth could be 13 billion years but it could also be 6,000 years" (the basis of Creationism) and "scientists can't reach consensus on climate change" (They reached consensus on its existence, its causes, and its affects in the 1970s). Does your library own Mein Kepf 'because debate'? Do you stock The Celestine Prophecy? How about the self‑published novel that your neighbor paid to produce so their kid could put "published author" on their college application? If not, would you move heaven and Earth to find them through interlbrary loan or would you discard books whose circulation waxes and wanes ‑ in order to make space for "the debate" about whether n historically secular nation is suddenly adopting Sharia law over religions that are actually a majority in our country?. We make collection choices all the time. There isn't any reason to fit in books whose sole purpose is to deliberately skew public discourse toward disruption and disinformation. Like · 1 · 15 hrs Roberta Branca Cassie's comment compels me to correct my statement that librarians 'above all other first amendment professionals" are promoting fase equivalencies. I've been bashing my former profession (journalism) for so long that I tend to forget they still cling to the idea that any opposing viewpoint they can find for "balance" somehow protects free speech rather than polluting it. But they aren't actually charged in their mission to combat information illiteracy, unfortunately. Librarians ARE, and they should not be taking queues from the media conglomerate model in any respect. Sorry, not sorry for sounding preachy. Like · 3 · 15 hrs Roberta Branca That said, my first pro librarian job was in an academic library that stocked several copies of Mein Kampf because it was assigned reading in a class. So in comes this student to ask if we have a copy, can I show him exactly where it is on the shelf, and is he allowed to check it out? I do all that but when I ask for his student ID, he says, "I'm borrowing this because I want to compare it to The Communist Manifesto." An ecnoraging but noncommital smile from me. And he adds "Communism and fascism were both economic philosophies. I don't see why I shouldn't study both." A nod of agreement from me. "Any way I'm leaning toward fascism being the better system because communism is anti‑capitalist." I swear the kid was actually writing a psychology paper on whether he could rattle the librarian. Or testing to see whether the school library really would stand by his first amendment right. Like · 2 · 15 hrs https://www.facebook.com/groups/ALAthinkTANK/permalink/1663140620425418/
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Cassie Chambliss Roberta Branca Haha Punk. Like · 3 hrs Julie DeLisle Regnery Press? Before you buy one of their books, read up on their history. This is a family business which has supported white nationalism for decades. Here are two articles about them. http://chicagoist.com/.../the_premier_financier_of_the... A Premier Financier Of The Alt-Right Descends From A Chicago Textile Magnate
Old money from Chicago helped shape the new face… CHICAGOIST.COM
Like · 1 · 15 hrs Julie DeLisle "Asked whether he considers Jews to be white, Regnery cocked his head and said, “That’s a good question!” https://www.buzzfeed.com/.../hes‑spent‑almost‑20‑years... He Spent Almost 20 Years Funding The Racist Right. It Finally Paid Off.
BUZZFEED.COM | BY JOEL ANDERSON
Like · 15 hrs Todd Krueger Regnery and similar publishers have been putting inflammatory things like this out for years now, and some of you are just beginning to notice? Does your community want this material? If so, it should be purchased, along with the Antifa handbook and whatever else your community is requesting. As for not purchasing anything from a publisher due to their beliefs, that seems like a really murky road to be traveling down. Like · 2 · 14 hrs Julie DeLisle I have a responsibility to select material based on quality. Just as I wouldn't purchase material by an author who had been convicted of fraudulent health claims, I won't purchase racist propaganda by white nationalists. It's not beliefs, it's about valid information. Like · 1 · 12 hrs Todd Krueger I understand that, but Regnery has published a lot of (more mainstream) conservative titles which customers in many communities would want to read, if we agree with their stances or not. Having a policy of not purchasing any books from a particular publisher could quickly become problematic. Like · 2 · 12 hrs Jay Heifenator The guy in the article is not involved with the publishing ‑ he actually thinks his uncles publishing company is too PC, lol Like · 12 hrs Julie DeLisle I didn't say that. I suggested one could read up on the history of the press, the history of the family, and I linked two articles. Like · 12 hrs Todd Krueger I apologize if I made it seem like you were recommending not purchasing anything by Regnery. I was conflating many of the comments made with your articles above. My statements are meant as more of a general concern of mine in terms of collection development policy making. Like · 2 · 12 hrs Amelia Lyra YES. All the time. ALL THE TIME. I really try, whenever I make said purchase, to also purchase something with different (logical) views. Even if it doesn't circulate as much. Like · 2 · 12 hrs Kristen Northrup Lindgren We order them. Upon request. Or if they reach the top 10 on the NYT list because then our standing order plan sends them automatically. If it helps, we also have people check them out in order to know enough about the books to be able to refute them in conversation with family, coworkers, etc. https://www.facebook.com/groups/ALAthinkTANK/permalink/1663140620425418/
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Like · 4 · 11 hrs Cassie Chambliss That is such a weird and passive acquisition "plan." An automated popularity contest might work for fiction, but non‑fiction? Like · 3 hrs Jeremy Brett This book is based on lies and the idea of no‑go zones has been debunked by the governments of the nations that right‑wingers claim have them. Keeping in in the library would be a mistake, and a cave‑in to hatred and xenophobia and Islamophobia. If a Nazi wants the book, let him buy it himself and not use taxpayer dollars for it. Like · 6 · 9 hrs Betsy Whodat Jayasuriya While a variety of information sources/opinions on a topic is good, you're NOT obligated to perpetrate disinformation. And you can balance sources that make you uncomfortable by allocating equal resources to sources you find more credible. Like · 4 · 8 hrs Ali Shaw‑Moorhead You just order what ever the best counter‑argument is to the book and display them together IF you HAVE to order it. Like · 4 · 7 hrs Susan Pedersen Upole And perhaps a program on Brietbart's corporate view. Like · 1 · 2 hrs Tonya Hartline‑King You can always suggest InterLibrary Loan. Like · 1 hr Rachel Wexelbaum Just because it's a bestseller doesn't mean that the library must purchase it. Like · 2 · 1 hr
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