John, there is nothing in the Federal 501(3)(c) statues that allow for seizure. Nor at least in the Charitable status for the State of California than allow for any such seizures of a non-profit's assets. Both are set up as tax statues and along with non-profit corporate law. You seem to be misinformed on this. NYU is not a "State" university but a private one as I stated. It has the exact same legal status as Harvard or Columbia.
Yes, universities can at any time "trash" contents of their libraries. I explained that during the "rise of microfilm" many institutions trashed books and, mostly, periodicals to make room for more material or they just didn't want to maintain their collections. That is how the Holt Labor Library acquired much of their material (now residing at the Garth Archives at CSU Dominguez Hills). In what is likely to be an increased activity by the far right to use the state to waste important material, this is more recent example: Florida college dumps hundreds of books, many on sexuality, race and feminism https://www.nbcnews.com/nbc-out/out-news/florida-new-college-books-removed-lgbtq-race-women-rcna166912. Activists came and scooped up some of the material. So if the state wants to ban books, they will, but it has little to do with what we've discussed so far. Beside a political fight back against this, the only way to preserve this material for current and future generations is to encourage the ongoing process of digitization since they allows the public to copy the material which saves it forever. That is why in no small part why the MIA exists: to preserve our common history forever. No threats have been made against the large labor/socialist collections at Indiana State University archives, the Wisconsin Historical Society's massive labor archives, no against NYU's Robert F. Wagner labor archives and there is nothing on the horizon (political or budgetary) to suggest it will, the incident in Florida notwithstanding. The far-right (Trump administration and like minded Know-Nothings at the state level) could of course move in that direction which is why digitization is so important. [Your own personal experience ... not sure why you put all that up, John ... notwistanding: it is not about YOU, it is about the ability of our class to preserve our history] David -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Groups.io Links: You receive all messages sent to this group. View/Reply Online (#42245): https://groups.io/g/marxmail/message/42245 Mute This Topic: https://groups.io/mt/119978120/21656 -=-=- POSTING RULES & NOTES #1 YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. #2 This mail-list, like most, is publicly & permanently archived. #3 Subscribe and post under an alias if #2 is a concern. #4 Do not exceed five posts a day. -=-=- Group Owner: [email protected] Unsubscribe: https://groups.io/g/marxmail/leave/13617172/21656/1316126222/xyzzy [[email protected]] -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-
