Library Watchers of Greater Lowell \"Make Every Week Freedom to Read Week\"

themulhern: Obtained from a library in MA, hurray.

themulhern: This one is probably a no-hoper. However, there is a copy of Helen Pluckrose's "Counterweight Handbook" available from a library in MA now.

themulhern: Constantly out at the BPL, purchase requested Feb 2025. Now available from the BPL and headed my way in April 2025.

themulhern: Requested and on order.

themulhern: Requested for purchase the third time Feb 2025. Still unavailable in MA April 2025. Still unavailable in MA December 2025...but some libraries have purchased Ben Appel's "Cis White Gay", so I feel like we're making progress on the dissident gay front.

themulhern: Requested Jan 2025. Purchase. Now available at my local public library. Currently reading!

themulhern: Requested and purchased and read!

themulhern: Requested Jan 2025. Available in my local public library in April 2025.

themulhern: Requested Jan 2025. Still unavailable 2025 April. Still unavailable December 2025.

themulhern: Now available in MA libraries.

themulhern: Note that the publisher is obscure and it came out a while ago, so in the end I decided not to request it. It _should_ have been purchased when DeSantis was a possible future president, but now it is a little beside the point.

themulhern: I'm not really interested in psych books, so I didn't bother to request it.

themulhern: This book is maybe a bit obscure, so I haven't requested it yet, but I probably should.

themulhern: Requested purchase Feb 2025. Now available in the MVLC!

themulhern: Now on order. Success! Purchased and it's good!

themulhern: Book has been purchased. Book has been checked out April 2025.

themulhern: Now available in MA libraries. I requested it, to verify availability. It is on it's way, hurray! It has been read and reviewed!

themulhern: The most recent hold expired in June 2025 without being fulfilled. Waited for three months and still I did not receive it. Have requested it. Put it on hold once more via the Commonwealth Catalog and still waiting in April 2025. Now available in MA libraries December 2025. Hurray!

themulhern: Obtained via the Commonwealth Catalog in May 2025. Requested for purchase again in April 2025. Waited for three months, have requested. Still unavailable anywhere in MA in April 2025. Finally received and read it in Summer 2025 after personal correspondence with librarian.

themulhern: Unavailable in MA, have requested. Request rejected April 2025.

themulhern: Niche and probably boring. Andrew Doyle's serious work is better and is now available in MA public libraries, due to my efforts. So, we can give this one a pass.

themulhern: 2025 April: Purchase Request rejected. Still unavailable in MA December 2025.

themulhern: On order 2025 April. Now available.

themulhern: Request for purchase April 2025. Still unavailable December 2025.

themulhern: Requested 11 May 2025. Request ignored. Still unavailable in MA in December 2025.

themulhern: Requested May 18. Request accepted, but the book may have been hard to find.

themulhern: Uncertain whether this is a truly vital purchase, skipping request.

themulhern: Requested from BPL, where it is on order, 31 Aug 2025. It's October and it is still just on order...why is that? Called the library to ask why the delay, now one is purchased and three are on order.

themulhern: Requested 2025 Oct 12. Still unavailable December 2025.

themulhern: The book has been available for a few months. The author was cancelled in 2019 for espousing excellence, etc. Still unavailable in MA libraries in December 2025.

themulhern: Publisher's website: https://www.crossway.org/.../pippa-and-the-singing-tree-hcj/ Unavailable in Massachusetts. Contains an implicitly Christian message. The artist, P. J. Lynch is a respected and skilled children's illustrator. Still unavailable in MA libraries in December 2025.

themulhern: Posted March 22, 2025. Still unavailable in MA December 2025.

themulhern: After death of Charlie Kirk, some libraries responded by purchasing copies of his most recent work, in response to popular demand, some did not. https://news.fairforall.org/p/will-public-libraries-feature-charlie . This book was not absent from MA libraries, in fact MA libraries seem to have responded better than PA libraries to the increased demand. The assassination is a special circumstance, and the book was being very obviously suppressed in PA and NOBLE. (Since I published this article (https://news.fairforall.org/p/will-public-libraries-feature-charlie) the libraries improved a bit.)

themulhern: Already requested, due to author's previous book going missing and that the SPLC is in the news, also Benevity. And purchased November 2025.

themulhern: Requested 2025 Nov 9

themulhern: Book of the Week is "The War on Science: Thirty-Nine Renowned Scientists and Scholars Speak Out About Current Threats to Free Speech, Open Inquiry, and the Scientific Process" edited by Lawrence Krauss. It's in a very weird state, Commonwealth Catalog lists it as belonging to Minuteman consortium, but Minuteman consortium card catalog doesn't list it. Fishy. It's that most unusual thing, a book about how the ideology of the left is undermining the practice of science. Narrator: it sure is! Here's the link to the publisher site: https://posthillpress.com/.../the-war-on-science-thirty... Request it!

themulhern: This was purchased and just two years later it disappeared from the purchasing library's collection. I nominated "The Woketopus" to replace it and the library purchased that book as a substitute.