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By: John D. Berry

John D. Berry — Fri, 09 Jan 2004 16:41:59 +0000

Fair, accurate and balanced - let us hope it passes.
Best, John D. Berry, ALA Councilor at Large

By: Jack Stephens

Jack Stephens — Fri, 09 Jan 2004 15:55:57 +0000

In response to Walt Crawford’s comments, the objection that has been raised in this discussion in order to distract us from the central issue (the “red herring”) has not been that the “maintainers of independent book collections” are independent librarians (sounds like a dictionary definition, doesn’t it?), but rather that they are NOT independent librarians. I take it as given that the central issue here is these individuals’ status as prisoners of conscience, and their apparent lack of a library degree has been raised to distract us from this fact.

Let us be clear: the jailing of Jos� Ubaldo Izquierdo is “relevant” to the practice of librarianship in precisely the same way that the abduction and murder of Wall Street Journal reporter Daniel Pearl by Islamic extremists was “relevant” to the practice of journalism.

By: Walt Crawford

Walt Crawford — Wed, 07 Jan 2004 15:25:38 +0000

Good job! (Somehow, I’m not surprised.)

You managed to hit the issues that make an ALA resolution plausible…without getting involved in the “independent librarian” red herring.

For ALA to protest the seizure/destruction of private book collections and the jailing of people for, apparently, having such collections is perfectly reasonable. Whether the owners of those collections are “librarians” or not. I suppose my use of punctuation hints at my opinion on that issue, but it’s irrelevant to the resolution you’ve crafted. Good luck with it.