SF government library's list of "Libertarian, Anarchist, Agorist" materials

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The SF Public Library’s “Bibliocommons” platform has a community-created list of 23 “Libertarian, Anarchist, Agorist”. All books, with the most recent listed being a work from 2012, raising questions about how dedicated the SFPL is to ordering new libertarian materials, and libertarian materials in different formats. Still, who knew?

While there are some clearly libertarian works on the list, including books by Harry Browne and Tom Palmer, and others whose titles suggest they are pro-freedom, I’m not familiar with a number of the titles and am wondering whether some of them do fit that description.

Want to weigh in on any of the books? The site allows community comments on each title. Feel free to post your remarks here as well.

You can also suggest titles for the library to carry, here:

https://sfpl.org/books-and-media/suggest-title

Please let us know what you suggest! Others may be able to echo your suggestions.

There’s no reason to think this will incur any additional expense for taxpayers; presumably they already have a budget for new acquisitions, that will not be affected by what titles people request. As long as they are stealing money for libraries, it seems worth trying to make sure these facilities carry an ample selection of pro-freedom materials along with the abundant statist items in their collections.

Love & Liberty,

((( starchild )))

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It would be interesting to see how many “hits” this part of the library’s website gets across all categories. I’ll bet close to zero. Libraries aren’t what they used to be. I’d put more work into making recommendations if I thought someone would actually see it.

Mike

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The SF Public Library’s “Bibliocommons” platform has a community-created list of 23 “Libertarian, Anarchist, Agorist”. All books, with the most recent listed being a work from 2012, raising questions about how dedicated the SFPL is to ordering new libertarian materials, and libertarian materials in different formats. Still, who knew?
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Libertarian, Anarchist, Agorist - San Francisco Public Libraryhttps://sfpl.bibliocommons.com/list/share/86026581/100857078

Libertarian, Anarchist, Agorist by Etheleona - a community-created list

While there are some clearly libertarian works on the list, including books by Harry Browne and Tom Palmer, and others whose titles suggest they are pro-freedom, I’m not familiar with a number of the titles and am wondering whether some of them do fit that description.

Want to weigh in on any of the books? The site allows community comments on each title. Feel free to post your remarks here as well.

You can also suggest titles for the library to carry, here:

https://sfpl.org/books-and-media/suggest-title

Please let us know what you suggest! Others may be able to echo your suggestions.

There’s no reason to think this will incur any additional expense for taxpayers; presumably they already have a budget for new acquisitions, that will not be affected by what titles people request. As long as they are stealing money for libraries, it seems worth trying to make sure these facilities carry an ample selection of pro-freedom materials along with the abundant statist items in their collections.

Love & Liberty,

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You raise a good question, Mike. When I use the library’s services online I’ve generally avoided the “Bibliocommons” platform in favor of the “classic” catalog myself, because it seems like a way for them to harvest people’s information. So I do have much more mixed feelings about it than I expressed in my previous message, and probably I should have made note of that.

The way I actually found the page, however, was that it came up on a Startpage.com* Internet search for the terms “libertarian San Francisco”. I try to do web searches like that periodically, just to see what comes up that could be of local interest. Sometimes websearching turns up SF-related articles and stories that mention the L-word, including comments about our local group, positions, me, etc.

The good news is that our website (LPSF.org) was the top hit for that search, and most of the other top results are also related to us and the LP. The Bibliocommons page came up 30th in the results.

Love & Liberty,

((( starchild )))

*A more privacy-respecting search engine than Google, which I also try to avoid.

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On Aug 13, 2021, at 8:33 AM, mike@dennz.com via LPSF Forum wrote:

dennz
August 13
It would be interesting to see how many “hits” this part of the library’s website gets across all categories. I’ll bet close to zero. Libraries aren’t what they used to be. I’d put more work into making recommendations if I thought someone would actually see it.

Mike

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The SF Public Library’s “Bibliocommons” platform has a community-created list of 23 “Libertarian, Anarchist, Agorist”. All books, with the most recent listed being a work from 2012, raising questions about how dedicated the SFPL is to ordering new libertarian materials, and libertarian materials in …
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Starchild
August 13
The SF Public Library’s “Bibliocommons” platform has a community-created list of 23 “Libertarian, Anarchist, Agorist”. All books, with the most recent listed being a work from 2012, raising questions about how dedicated the SFPL is to ordering new libertarian materials, and libertarian materials in different formats. Still, who knew?

San Francisco Public Library
Libertarian, Anarchist, Agorist - San Francisco Public Library

Libertarian, Anarchist, Agorist by Etheleona - a community-created list

While there are some clearly libertarian works on the list, including books by Harry Browne and Tom Palmer, and others whose titles suggest they are pro-freedom, I’m not familiar with a number of the titles and am wondering whether some of them do fit that description.

Want to weigh in on any of the books? The site allows community comments on each title. Feel free to post your remarks here as well.

You can also suggest titles for the library to carry, here:

https://sfpl.org/books-and-media/suggest-title

Please let us know what you suggest! Others may be able to echo your suggestions.

There’s no reason to think this will incur any additional expense for taxpayers; presumably they already have a budget for new acquisitions, that will not be affected by what titles people request. As long as they are stealing money for libraries, it seems worth trying to make sure these facilities carry an ample selection of pro-freedom materials along with the abundant statist items in their collections.

Love & Liberty,

((( starchild )))

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