[Publib] DC Nightspot vs. SC Library Programs

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Hi List,
How do other libraries handle this "problem patrons"?  Most libraries  that I 
have worked in, sent out collection notices for "lost" books and put a  hold 
on the patron's library card so they could not check anything else out  until 
either payment or the book was returned.
As far as problem patrons using the library's computers for Internet  
research and then complaining about it, could that patron be banned from using  the 
Internet accessible computers at the library?
Deb Information Broker
In a message dated 7/1/2007 2:12:23 P.M. Eastern Daylight Time,  
marydonley at yahoo.com writes:

Judith  and all,

I'm not sure about all reasons but one is that  most
libraries have a heavy contingent of home schoolers
who are usually  Christian.  They are in the library
constantly and could not home  school at all without
being subsidized by the public library.  At  my
previous library system, a "Christian" mom pulled up a
porn site on  one of our PCs, walked off, then
complained to the mgr about h0aving  "discovered"  porn
in the library.  She wanted us to filter the  adult
section of PCs.  Unfortunately for her, someone saw
her do  it, so she didn't get very far with her
complaint.  

These are  the same people who check out or steal the
witchcraft or abortion books,  then never bring them
back. In Florida there is a woman who is upset about  a
children's book (at a school library), Vamos a Cuba,
which is too  positive about Cuba and Fidel Castro. 
She checked out the book and won't  bring it back.  I
have a current patron who gets all shook up every  time
a Vanity Fair or other magazine cover has some nudity.


We  live in an age of self-righteousness on all sides.
The Christian right has  been organizing since the
Reagan administration and they aren't going  away.

Mary


--- Judith Turner  <turnermalibmba at yahoo.com> wrote:

> Last night I described  both stories to my husband, a
> non-librarian, and asked him which was  the real
> story and which the ringer.  He said -- with no
>  hesitation -- the SC library program was obviously
> the fake.   
> 
> A bit of background- he's a computer-savvy engineer
>  and businessman who recently retired from the
> company he founded in  the health care information
> industry. He's also very  newspaper-oriented -- a
> great(?)-grandfather founded the New Richmond  (WI)
> News in the 19th century and the paper remained
>  family-owned until his uncle passed away in the mid
> 20th century. Like  the rest of us, he's aware of the
> stories about the shenanigans of  Paris, Lindsay et
> al.
> 
> His reaction to the stories  convinced me to pose
> this question -- when/how did public  libraries
> become such a vulnerable spot in the ongoing
>  conflict between Fundamentalism and personal
> liberties?
>  
> Judy Turner
> Whitefish Bay, WI
>  
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