Well said. Madeleine Cohen Oakley > While I appreciate Mr. Sheynin's perspective, I must disagree with him > that HaSafran is not an appropriate forum for political discussion. > Librarianship is inherently a political profession, and it seems to me > that we must engage in these difficult questions even though we will often > disagree about them. Librarians work with books, and even more > significantly, select and champion or denounce books, and libraririans > serve communities of people. Books are political objects (among many > other things), and patrons are political beings. To ignore the difficult > political issues that librarians must face is, to my mind, extremely > dangerous, if not impossible. > > June Cummins
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