[Henry M]

OWS is a Temporary Autonomous Zone.   One concern that I have is that many
people will take away lessons from it that do not work in more permanent
societies.  There was a restaurant whose policy was "pay what you will." It
took them a long time to go broke.

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Henry Mu
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On Fri, Oct 28, 2011 at 9:02 AM, Mark Kohut <markekohut at yahoo.com> wrote:

> The Occupy Wall Street Library is (almost) EXACTLY like the pile of
> t-shirts image--"as close to (real) anarchy as you're gonna get here" [I
> believe it goes] in Against the Day.
>
> Lending without limits
> As I write this, I see that the Occupy Wall Street library has over 3500
> books cataloged at LibraryThing. It also has policies and procedures, as
> libraries do. These include how to close the library when it rains (put
> lids on the boxes and tuck the tarps around them in a manner that won't
> aggravate the police) and it has circulation policies, including how to
> check books out...forever: "these books belong to everyone, so we trust
> everyone to do what they think is most effective with them. If you think
> you could put a book to good use long-term, by all means keep it. If you
> think others might benefit from it more after you've finished, we strongly
> encourage returns." I love that.
>
> From a good piece in Library Journal today.
>
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