In the Berkeley Public Library last year, Board of Trustees Meetings were packed with library users who showed up to defend the library’s books.
“I want a return to the way the library used to be. They now bore me, and terrify me,” one speaker said.
The Berkeley Public Library interim library director at the time decided to remove thousands of books from the shelves. In the library world, that’s actually called “book weeding.” Books that hadn’t been checked out for three years were removed. And that didn’t sit well with some Berkeley residents.
“We deserve better than that. Berkeley does. Our kids do. The country does,” another speaker said.
