This article regarding a white supremacists rally in Somerville, MA leaves me with some questions. It seems that the group reserved a library room under another name and when the cops found out they closed the library.
“There was no way we could ensure the safety of the patrons in the library,” Bradley said. “For security reasons, we decided just to close the library down. We did give them an alternate location in the parking lot.”
The question I have is whether the library was involved or not in this decision. The article leaves this information out along with any comment from anyone associated with the library.
About Michael
Michael Sauers is currently the Technology Innovation Librarian for the Nebraska Library Commission in Lincoln, Nebraska and has been training librarians in technology for more than 15 years. He has also been a public library trustee, a bookstore manager for a library friends group, a reference librarian, serials cataloger, technology consultant, and bookseller. He earned his MLS in 1995 from the University at Albany’s School of Information Science and Policy. Michael’s tenth book, Blogging & RSS: A Librarian’s Guide, Second Edition was published October 2010 with three more books to be published in 2012. He has also written dozens of articles for various journals and magazines. In his spare time he blogs at travelinlibrarian.info, runs Web sites for authors and historical societies, takes many, many photos, and reads more than 100 books a year.
