Whodunit in the Library: Someone Keeps Hiding the Anti-Trump Books

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Whodunit in the Library: Someone Keeps Hiding the Anti-Trump Books

Mike Baker
 
5 hrs ago

 
Bette Ammon, director of the Couer D’Alene Public Library, said she and other staff members have hunches about who might be hiding the books, but they have yet to catch anyone in the act.

COEUR d’ALENE, Idaho — From her office next to the public computer terminals, Bette Ammon finds herself peering through a window to watch patrons moving through the Coeur d’Alene library’s nonfiction stacks.

Someone has been hiding books lately — specifically, those that explore politics through a progressive lens, or criticize President Trump. They wind up misfiled in out-of-the-way corners where readers will be sure not to find them.

“I am going to continue hiding these books in the most obscure places I can find to keep this propaganda out of the hands of young minds,” the mystery book relocator wrote in a note left for Ms. Ammon, the library director, in the facility’s comment box. “Your liberal angst gives me great pleasure.”

For decades, Coeur d’Alene has navigated a delicate political landscape in northern Idaho, a conservative corner of the country where some have sought refuge from political and social changes elsewhere.

The incidents over this past year — including a missing book that was discovered only this week — were not the first time books have mysteriously disappeared. Thirty years ago, the library lost so many books on human rights to theft that they had to be placed in a locked cabinet. The latest works to be targeted cover a wide range of topics, from gun control and women’s suffrage to LGBTQ issues and how people of color fare in the criminal justice system. About half the books specifically deal with President Trump.

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[Sighlass]

Or.... another liberal librarian doing a fake hoax stunt to play the victim card.

[PeteS in CA]

Stupidity, and it is done by partisans of all varieties. DU used to have its share of threads in which DU members boasted of hiding or making less visible books by conservative authors. Back when I was using the Santa Clara County Public Library branch near me, I found that many books by conservative authors were either "lost" (probably = stolen) or were only stocked at branches in more remote corners of the system.

A pox o' all their houses!

[Wingnut]

For the record, I have never been to COEUR d’ALENE, Idaho

[Cyber Liberty]

Or.... another liberal librarian doing a fake hoax stunt to play the victim card.

This is where I'd put my money on this story.  Ten bucks says it never happened.

[Slide Rule]

For the record, I have never been to COEUR d’ALENE, Idaho

The assumption the librarian has is that there are people who are
in fact looking for Fake News accounts about Trump.

The further assumption is they can read and possibly comprehend.

I have been to Couer d'Alene when I lived in Pullman Washington.
I like libraries and visit the local library in Toledo at least weekly but
my time in Idaho was to purchase a Jeep without visiting the library.

Why would a normal person try to hold such books from view when
simple reading exposes the lie?

TDS is the likely cause of the persecution the librarian feels.

:)