Comments for thoughts from a threshold http://gleewood.org/threshold Mon, 09 Jan 2012 23:38:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 Comment on Wicca, censorship, and the library by Jenett http://gleewood.org/threshold/2012/01/04/wicca-censorship-and-the-library/comment-page-1/#comment-1450 Jenett Mon, 09 Jan 2012 23:38:00 +0000 http://gleewood.org/threshold/?p=1369#comment-1450 You're quite right that boards can have a tremendous amount of influence (something I touch on up above, in the "Response to reasonable questions about policy, access, and changes to same." section.)That said - from actually reading the brief, the response of the librarian is not what I'd expect from someone who was being pushed into filtering, but disagreed with it. It comes across much more as the response of someone who is, for whatever reason, reasonably in tune with their board on the issue. (If it really were a board driven policy, I'd have expect to see a "Our policy, determined by the board, is X" sort of response, not just "I won't do that.") Which is rather a problem when it goes so directly against the library's own mission statement, and of course, in general. You’re quite right that boards can have a tremendous amount of influence (something I touch on up above, in the “Response to reasonable questions about policy, access, and changes to same.” section.)That said – from actually reading the brief, the response of the librarian is not what I’d expect from someone who was being pushed into filtering, but disagreed with it. It comes across much more as the response of someone who is, for whatever reason, reasonably in tune with their board on the issue.

(If it really were a board driven policy, I’d have expect to see a “Our policy, determined by the board, is X” sort of response, not just “I won’t do that.”)

Which is rather a problem when it goes so directly against the library’s own mission statement, and of course, in general.

]]> Comment on Wicca, censorship, and the library by Librarian http://gleewood.org/threshold/2012/01/04/wicca-censorship-and-the-library/comment-page-1/#comment-1449 Librarian Mon, 09 Jan 2012 23:33:00 +0000 http://gleewood.org/threshold/?p=1369#comment-1449 In many communities, especially smaller communities, the library, its staff, and its policies may be closely controlled by the board of trustees, usually made up of members of the community. A reallly controlling board can dictate collection development policies, insist on certain types of filtering, decide whether to hire a librarian with professional credentials, and dictate to library staff how they must respond to members of the public on access issues. The story out of Salem is not unusual - we just hear about it readilys thanks to (ironically enough) - internet access. The librarian is taking a lot of heat over this situation, but I'd bet that the board is at the bottom of the problem. In many communities, especially smaller communities, the library, its staff, and its policies may be closely controlled by the board of trustees, usually made up of members of the community. A reallly controlling board can dictate collection development policies, insist on certain types of filtering, decide whether to hire a librarian with professional credentials, and dictate to library staff how they must respond to members of the public on access issues. The story out of Salem is not unusual – we just hear about it readilys thanks to (ironically enough) – internet access.

The librarian is taking a lot of heat over this situation, but I’d bet that the board is at the bottom of the problem.

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]]> Comment on Cliques and open rituals by BlackCatEmpathy http://gleewood.org/threshold/2008/01/07/cliques-and-open-rituals/comment-page-1/#comment-1446 BlackCatEmpathy Wed, 16 Nov 2011 09:26:00 +0000 http://gleewood.org/threshold/2008/01/07/cliques-and-open-rituals/#comment-1446 Thank You so much! This was very helpful! Thank You so much! This was very helpful!

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