Weeding, or culling old, damaged or outdated books, is standard practice in libraries. But in some cases it is being used to remove books because of the viewpoint they express.
  • reddig33@lemmy.world
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    1 month ago

    TLDR: people are damaging books they want removed from the library. These books are pulled from circulation as part of a process called “weeding”.

    But when books are weeded, a fresh copy is ordered to replace it. So this vandalism isn’t really accomplishing anything.

    • lad@programming.devEnglish
      2·
      1 month ago

      Might work with books copies of which can no longer be obtained. Besides, vandalism as a vigilantism looks pretty poor stance to me

      Edit: now that I gave it more thought, vandalism is sometimes the only way to express oppressed views. But I am against specifically secretly damaging communal books

    • BradleyUffner@lemmy.worldEnglish
      2·
      1 month ago

      If the same books are constantly getting destroyed, the library may consider no longer replacing them in order to avoid the cost.