LIBRARIES: Real victims are the patrons
Community Library Network chair Tom Hanley recently published a My Turn column in which he claimed that other libraries in the Cooperative Information Network had voted to “boot out” the CLN. He casts the CLN as a victim, suggesting that CIN libraries chose to sacrifice shared services rather than accommodate the CLN’s efforts to impose restrictions on minors — regardless of the individual policies of other libraries or districts.
In reality, the decision to dissolve CIN was made by 11 of the 13 member libraries. This overwhelming majority cited serious concerns, including threats of legal action from the CLN and the breakdown of the cooperative spirit that made the network functional in the first place. The consortium is now officially dissolved. Whether it can or should be reconstituted is a question for another day.
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