In 2012, our library completed a major, thorough facility inspection and a consultant-led space planning program (yes, with all kinds of buy-in and focus groups and active sessions… by the en…

Ballot proposals, amendments (friendly and otherwise), coalition building, lobbying, weighted voting formulas, and roll-call votes are not usual features of librarian gatherings. But HathiTrust is …

GLORY FREAKIN' HALLELUJAH. "It's hard to imagine that the "protest books" will be read, consulted, or cited in the same manner as those that actually relate to an assignment or research project. They are being used in a different way, to make a rhetorical point. (Of course, one might argue that this is the highest use of a book!) They are being used as a symbol or a category; the actual titles don't matter, so long as the volumes are dusty. In the end, this is not an argument about content at all. It's an argument about the idea of a library versus the reality of a library."

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