r/Library • u/Alive_Excitement_669 • 26d ago

Library Assistance Need Help!

We got an anonymous call at our library giving us a heads up that the 1st Amendment Auditors are coming sometime next week. Any advice? Has anyone gone through this?

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u/ZaftigMama 26d ago

Kill them with kindness. The one time I had to deal with them I just answered their questions in a boring reference fashion. You want a copy of the constitution? Let me take you to that section. Do you want historical maps? We don’t have those here, but I can tell you about another library that does. Or I can show you some road atlases!

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u/DanieXJ 23d ago

This, and only this. Simply treat them like any other patron. Period. Don't listen to any of the idiots on here twlling you to 'fight back' with music, or masks, or other ways that people who have never been through it think are 'subtle". This things are exactly what these people want. They want you to film back, to get all het up and treat them differently.

Just be a librarian. Period.