>From the link supplied by David Brauer: "A fundraising consultant raised that >possibility with library trustees recently by posing an intriguing question: 'If >someone wanted to give you $15 million, would you be willing to name the library >after a person?' The immediate, if informal, reaction was a resounding yes."
Hoo boy, this idea really makes my heart sink. How about some more literary alternatives: 1. Free name change for the donor (to Charles Baudelaire, Edgar A. Poe, George Sand, Robert Desnos, Gertrude Stein...?). All legal fees paid for by the library. 2. Instead of naming the library after the donor, let the donor write and publish his/her life story, and place the volume in a prominent place near the check-out desk (where no one will read it anyway). 3. Make an anagram out of the donor's name, and name the library that. 4. Let the donor pick a dedicated Minneapolis teacher and name the library after him or her. 5. Encourage any future donor to give $$ while remaining unnamed, thus naming the library after that most famous and greatest poet--Anonymous! Kristine Harley Sheridan _______________________________________ Minneapolis Issues Forum - A City-focused Civic Discussion - Mn E-Democracy Post messages to: mailto:mpls@;mnforum.org Subscribe, Unsubscribe, Digest, and more: http://e-democracy.org/mpls
