Removing Books From Libraries Often Takes Debate. But There’s a Quieter Way.
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Removing Books From Libraries Often Takes Debate. But There’s a Quieter Way.
But Daunt used the pandemic as an opportunity to “weed out the rubbish” in the stores. He asked employees in the outlets to take every book off the shelf, and re-evaluate whether it should stay. Every section of the store needed to be refreshed and made appealing.
from What Can We Learn From Barnes & Noble's Surprising Turnaround? by Ted Gioia
Pruning is healthy and vital for growth in all areas.- The important thing is to be ruthless with the books that are not good. Just stop reading, put them down, usually throw them away, don’t give them away – if you give them away you could be doing harm to people.
from Tyler Cowen on Reading Fast, Reading Well, and Reading Widely by Stuart Patience
Tanuj added
- ON LIBRARIESI was visiting public libraries and ultimately writing my dissertation about them and realizing it’s not about people engaging with kind of romanticized documents. There is some of that in the library, but it’s also compromised bodies interacting with compromised bodies, often the most marginalized people in societies and also really be... See more
from Shannon Mattern - multispecies worldbuilding lab by Multispecies Worldbuilding Lab
Keely Adler and added