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Defender DPL part 3

I wanted to post a link to an editorial that accurately expressed how I feel, but when I tried to paste the link it merely sent me to a subscription page - so let me just give the details: from the ContraCostaTime.com, on 08-26-05, an editorial entitled At the Library: Julie Winkelstein.

It begins with, of course, the fotonovelas españolas currently in question, and how she used these fotonovelas to attract inmates (this was, as you can tell, in a prison library) to the larger world of reading. Along with some other good links to other recent articles (fair enough she covered BOTH sides of the fence), she winds up the editorial by stating that the very true HECHO that libraries/las bibliotecas historically have been made accessible to ALL the public, not just a section of the public.

Libraries are the primary source through which immigrants can begin to assimilate into the broader culture, and not remain imprisoned within their own linguistic limitations. In no way should CAIR or the Colorado Minutemen or any of the other extremists seek to limit the access of people to the libraries.

Simply put: if one fotonovela in Spanish leads one person to bring his parents to one ESL class, with the slim hope that that family might eventually stay in the US, become legal citizens, and enterweave their lineage into the fabric of America, then that's worth MY tax dollar!!

posted by Verble Gherulous @ 6:00 AM