[bookshare-discuss] Re: having others choose books for you
- From: Ann Parsons <akp@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: cherryjam@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Sat, 15 Sep 2007 14:27:17 -0400
Hi all,
I've left in this quoted message for two reasons. First, this message
indicates that you are indeed reading and writing at an adult level.
Second, your clear, concise, and well worded, and well spelled prose
would do credit to anyone.
Now, if I knew that librarian's name, address or phone number, I'd be
calling her up and explaining in no uncertain terms that if Judy S.
chooses to read Dr. Sues or The Velveteen Rabit or Harry Potter or
Madaleine L'Engle it's none of her business and if she doesn't leave
you alone, she's going to get a storm of email from people demanding
that she leave Judy alone and let her read whatever the Hell she wants
to read! Sheesh! Tell you what, Judy, if you don't get any
satisfaction from your regional library, write to Judy Dixon at Library
of Congress. She's the public relations person, and if she can't help
you, she'll know somebody who can! She can be reached at:
jdix@xxxxxxx Deliver me from well meaning, busy bodies! I hope my
library never starts sending me Russian Classics and telling me I have
to read 'em. They're not likely to do so, but if they did, man, would
I complain. It's restriction of information, it's straight from the
gulog. <smiling sardonically> Youmight remind Ms. Busy Body about
that some time.
Just as a matter of interest, Judy, what do you like to read?
Ann P.
Original message:
Thanks to everyone for their supportive replies - it's just been SO frustrating
to deal with! It's quite insulting too, to have this librarian very
condescendingly tell me that I need to "read to an adult level." Excuse me?
Without knowing a thing about me she jumps to that conclusion? It has so much
felt like the other prejudices we run into. My husband and I laugh about it
(privately, of course) when people meet me and because I'm now severely
disabled
talk very loudly and very slowly and use little words. The same kind of "oh,
you're disabled so you must be patronized" is how this feels with this
librarian. I'm a patron of the NLS, so therefore I automatically must
be pushed
to a higher reading level because NLS patrons by virtue of qualifying for the
service are a tad slow and need to have someone who knows better decide these
sorts of things for them?
I think not!
I've complained bitterly to the regional library supervisor, with no
action, but
finally have found a way around the problem when our regional library
gave me an
on-line access last month (which I had asked about for 2 years and been told
wasn't available!) so I can set up my own waiting list of books that I
want, and
request that they not slip in other titles and just go from that list. I
checked today, and lo and behold my preferences have been over-ridden and reset
back again to "no young adult books, no children's books" so I'll have to do
some more cage rattling and get it reset to my preferences.
Sigh. Thanks for listening to me rant. I do use NLS all the time, and
appreciate the idea behind it and the service that it provides, but I love
having Bookshare. It let's me pick and choose exactly what I want to
read, when
I want to read it, without layers of obstacles between me and my
passion for books!
Judy s.
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