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ysabetwordsmith) wrote2025-06-04 08:35 pm
ysabetwordsmith) wrote2025-06-04 08:35 pm
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Books
For my librarian friends:
I found this post about how to deal with people who purposely misfile library books to hide topics they dislike: find the books, scan them, and then put them on the display shelf. If every effort to discourage a topic results in encouraging it instead, this will quickly undermine that behavior. Or hey, promote the hell out of suppressed topics, which is also a good thing.
PSA: Stop Hiding The Gay Books
Dudes. Jerks. Wine Moms.
Stop hiding the gay books.
This has been happening all year, btw. I haven't noticed a marked increase of this kind of behavior since Pride started. It's been going on for months.
But y'all. You're wasting your time. You might think you're wasting mine, but I reshelve books all day long, whether they got moved accidentally or on purpose. Who do you think will get bored faster?
Oh, also: when you have to reshelve things, you also scan them, which flags them in the system as "in library use," meaning the computer goes, "Hey, people read this a lot! Let's keep it FOREVER!"
So: I will find them. And every time I do, I will move them to the DISPLAY shelf. You came in with an agenda and an hour of bigotry to perform during your lunch break.
I'm here every day for eight hours in a row. You won't win this.
As you were.
I found this post about how to deal with people who purposely misfile library books to hide topics they dislike: find the books, scan them, and then put them on the display shelf. If every effort to discourage a topic results in encouraging it instead, this will quickly undermine that behavior. Or hey, promote the hell out of suppressed topics, which is also a good thing.
PSA: Stop Hiding The Gay Books
Dudes. Jerks. Wine Moms.
Stop hiding the gay books.
This has been happening all year, btw. I haven't noticed a marked increase of this kind of behavior since Pride started. It's been going on for months.
But y'all. You're wasting your time. You might think you're wasting mine, but I reshelve books all day long, whether they got moved accidentally or on purpose. Who do you think will get bored faster?
Oh, also: when you have to reshelve things, you also scan them, which flags them in the system as "in library use," meaning the computer goes, "Hey, people read this a lot! Let's keep it FOREVER!"
So: I will find them. And every time I do, I will move them to the DISPLAY shelf. You came in with an agenda and an hour of bigotry to perform during your lunch break.
I'm here every day for eight hours in a row. You won't win this.
As you were.