{"id":694,"date":"2008-06-17T10:28:18","date_gmt":"2008-06-17T17:28:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ahniwa.com\/blog\/2008\/06\/17\/public-vs-library-which-idea-is-more-important\/"},"modified":"2008-06-17T10:28:18","modified_gmt":"2008-06-17T17:28:18","slug":"public-vs-library-which-idea-is-more-important","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ahniwa.com\/old\/2008\/06\/17\/public-vs-library-which-idea-is-more-important\/","title":{"rendered":"\u201cPublic\u201d vs \u201cLibrary\u201d: Which idea is more important?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Miss Conduct of the Boston Globe Magazine <a href=\"http:\/\/www.boston.com\/bostonglobe\/magazine\/missconduct\/2008\/06\/public_library.html\">explores how libraries<\/a> might be allowing the idea of what it means to be public to disrupt what their mission is as a library.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>But I do think we have the right to pick up a new Alexander McCall Smith or study for an exam without feeling threatened&#8211;and a large, unwashed, clearly unstable man is threatening to a woman, or an elderly person, or a person with children who need protection. In their zeal to remain &#8220;public,&#8221; are libraries in fact driving away significant segments of the public they are meant to serve? Are they emphasizing &#8220;public&#8221; at the expense of &#8220;library&#8221;?<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Surely there&#8217;s a middle ground, but where do we toe the line? Thoughts?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Miss Conduct of the Boston Globe Magazine explores how libraries might be allowing the idea of what it means to be public to disrupt what their mission is as a library. But I do think we have the right to pick up a new Alexander McCall Smith or study for an exam without feeling threatened&#8211;and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[63,64,65,389,176,189,223],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ahniwa.com\/old\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/694"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ahniwa.com\/old\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ahniwa.com\/old\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ahniwa.com\/old\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ahniwa.com\/old\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=694"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ahniwa.com\/old\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/694\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ahniwa.com\/old\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=694"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ahniwa.com\/old\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=694"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ahniwa.com\/old\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=694"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}