Thing that one of my ADs said this morning in response to that wild & terrible C&RL piece on "privacy"
(I'm paraphrasing)
Learning and this limited vision privacy (and the idea of maintaining a fixed identity/belief) are fundamentally incompatible. Learning things changes you. And learning is fundamental if we want to live up to all the other values of librarianship.
@platypus Yeah. Arguing that "anything that might have me change my mind is coercion if I have to attend it" is the position of someone who very much wants the library world to stay ignorant and to enshrine that ignorance. Most library workers would be aghast at the idea, but I know there still plenty of people who don't want to have to encounter new ideas and grapple with them as a part of their work.
Especially when those new ideas suggest their comfortable way of thinking ill-serves others.
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