Creative Activism at the Library
posted by ModeratorFiled under: Creative Activism, Media Literacy
Algorithms be damned! Power to the people! Library workers take the fate of automated inventory control into their own hands in a cheeky way.
Librarians Go Rogue In Devious Attempt To Save Books From Getting Tossed, Hilary Henson, Huffington Post, January 6, 2017
The scheme involves a fake patron named “Chuck,” who checked out thousands of books last year.
A Florida librarian has been fired after in connection with a scheme to create a fake patron to check out books.
Staff at the East Lake County Library say they were just trying to save books.
But one librarian has been fired in connection with a scheme involving the creation of a fake library patron who “checked out” more than 2,000 books over the last year, as first reported by the Orlando Sentinel. Read the rest of the article here.
