Many of us are civil servants, who aren't supposed to be involved in partisan politics on company time. Unless you have a "patronage" job gained through connections rather than merit, a civil servant is required to be willing to work whether the boss is "red meat" Republican or a "bi-coastal Democrat", and all points in between, or even further extreme.
Many Judaica librarians work for institutions who have specific stands on issues and won't be thrilled if a staff member takes an opposing position (do you really believe that an Orthodox institution won't be annoyed if someone identifying themselves as an employee, with an institution email, comes out for gay marriage and abortion, or if an institution affiliated with the Reform movement won't object if someone uses their email address to attack a candidate for being supportive of infanticide and sexual perversions. Judaica librarians are probably the less willing to support an absolutist policy on intellectual freedom, since many of the books people want to ban are vilely anti-Semitic. So if a newly elected mayor asks the village librarian of a library that is 100% owned and paid for by the village about acquisition policy, is that a political issue we should be discussing on a Judaica listserve (I am reasonably certain the books she objected to did not deal with Jewish conspiracies to rule the world, holocaust denial, etc.).??? Messages and opinions expressed on Hasafran are those of the individual author and are not necessarily endorsed by the Association of Jewish Libraries (AJL) =========================================================== Submissions for Ha-Safran, send to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] SUBscribing, SIGNOFF commands send to: Listproc @ lists.acs.ohio-state.edu Questions, problems, complaints, compliments;-) send to: galron.1 @ osu.edu Ha-Safran Archives: Current: http://www.mail-archive.com/hasafran%40lists.acs.ohio-state.edu/maillist.html History: http://www.mail-archive.com/hasafran%40lists.acs.ohio-state.edu/history.html AJL HomePage http://www.JewishLibraries.org
