Community conflicts about public library collections

[iris lilies]

If I were a librarian I suppose I would do the research on appropriate treatment of the book. Five minutes with the googles told me that there are a variety of opinions on the topic with the extreme being that the library probably shouldn’t have one because non-Islamic people shouldn’t touch a Quran. From the library’s perspective probably the best, and easiest, way to resolve that would be to reach out to one or two leaders of the local Islamic community and follow their recommendations.

damn, you are good! This is yet another example of why you would make a fine librarian.


That is kind of what I did, although it was never resolved to change our practice. I received one answer from a semi local religious person that was just bland. I ended up going back to the complaining patron to talk further with her about it, but her phone number was disconnected. We did not change what we were doing with the Quran at this particular branch but it was a very interesting exercise.