<div dir="ltr">ALA staff are gathering information according to Julie Todaro, ALA President.<br><br><div><div class="gmail_quote">---------- Forwarded message ----------<br>From: <b class="gmail_sendername">Julie Todaro</b> <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:jtodaro@austincc.edu">jtodaro@austincc.edu</a>></span><br>Date: Thu, Sep 29, 2016 at 9:28 AM<br>Subject: [alacoun] Todaro comment... Library worker arrested in library after defending patron's free speech<br><br><br><br><p dir="ltr">We are gathering information on this and will get back to Council. I can only speak for myself..but I had not heard of this until yesterday.</p>
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<div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Sep 29, 2016 10:29 AM, "Lauren Comito" <<a href="mailto:librariancrafter@gmail.com" target="_blank">librariancrafter@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br type="attribution"><blockquote style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr">That this happened at all is difficult to wrap my head around, but I have a few questions. <div><br></div><div>1 - Why was this not more widely known in the community in May when it happened? </div><div>2 - Is Mr. Woolfolk OK, and does he need anything from the wider community?</div><div>2 - Now that we are aware, what are we going to do/say about it? This is a blatant violation of our core principles as librarians and I hope to see ALA address this issue. </div><div><br></div><div>Lauren Comito</div><div>Councilor at Large</div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><div><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Sep 29, 2016 at 10:27 AM, Aaron W. Dobbs <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:aaron@thelibrarian.org" target="_blank">aaron@thelibrarian.org</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div>Library Worker Heroically Defends Patron’s Free Speech, Is Brutally Arrested in Library Where He Works<br></div><div><a href="http://bordc.org/news/library-worker-heroically-defends-patrons-free-speech-brutally-arrested-library-works/" target="_blank">http://bordc.org/news/library-<wbr>worker-heroically-defends-patr<wbr>ons-free-speech-brutally-arres<wbr>ted-library-works/</a><br></div><div><br></div><div>“For someone to be assaulted and then arrested for asking a question, in a public library of all places, is abhorrent. The library should be a place where people of all points of view can feel safe and welcome,” Steve Woolfolk, director of public programing at the Kansas City Public Library told the Dissent NewsWire. </div><div>...</div><div>“I have spent the last 10 years of my life trying to cultivate that atmosphere through public programming at the library. Library staff should be the final arbiters of what constitutes reasonable discourse at a public event held inside a public library,” Woolfolk explained to the Dissent NewsWire. Yet, when he tried to intervene on the questioner’s behalf, Woolfolk found himself arrested at an event he helped plan.<br></div><div>...</div><div>Woolfolk stands charged with interfering with the arrest of Rothe-Kushel. Rothe-Kushel, like Woolfolk feared, was charged with trespassing and resisting arrest. “Nobody, be it an individual or an agent of the state, should be able to take it upon themselves to silence a point of view simply because they disagree,” Woolfolk informed the Dissent NewsWire. Yet, it would appear that not only is that exactly what happened, but a librarian who tried to make sure that a public library remained a public forum was arrested, as well.<br></div></div>
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