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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I'm a librarian too, but in a liberal state. If I otherwise liked my job, I'd just do it. We influence kids and families in lots of big and small ways, and having certain books on the shelf is just one way we can have a positive impact on a community. [/quo

I have to say I agree. I just retired as an administrator for a large public library and was a librarian before that--35 years. I was in a purple area politically. We had so many challenges in the last two years. We had the will and support to fight them. It continues.

Locally, there were school districts going through this. The librarians lost. Politicians and parents are fired up and this looks good as a way to be vanquishing something.

I agree that they will replace you with a pawn who may even just be a volunteer. I feel school libraries are going to be the worst for censorship and that the libraries and librarians may be eliminated altogether as I saw they have been in some Houston schools recently.

Right now I would search for a job in a public or academic library where there is political support for freedom to read Don't quit until you find something else, but i would leave eventually.

It is not a good time right now for libraries. They are under attack and it's not going to end soon. It's going to be a fight in a lot of places and it will be public with grandstanding  politicians who take pleasure in denigrating librarians.

I'm not sure why this has happened, but libraries are no longer viewed as neutral places providing a variety of viewpoints, and even the idea to provide a variety of viewpoints is suspect.

I especially don't understand it when there is the internet and all it brings, good and bad. A book, in some ways, seems rather quaint in comparison.

I don't have a huge amount of hope for the profession anymore. [/quote]

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