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.
Michael Sauers is currently the Director of Technology for Do Space in Omaha, NE. Michael has been training librarians in technology for the past twenty years and has also been a public library trustee, a bookstore manager for a library friends group, a reference librarian, serials cataloger, technology consultant, and bookseller since earning his MLS in 1995 from the University at Albany’s School of Information Science and Policy. Michael has also written dozens of articles for various journals and magazines and his fourteenth book, Emerging Technologies: A Primer for Librarians (w/ Jennifer Koerber) was published in May 2015 and more books are on the way. In his spare time he blogs at travelinlibrarian.info, runs The Collector’s Guide to Dean Koontz Web site, takes many, many photos, and typically reads more than 100 books a year.
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