Library Donation Campaign Hot

The two suburban libraries that I visit each have about six LRH books (2007 editions) on their shelves, next to Buddhism in the religion category. The choice seems random: Fundamentals of Thought, Evolution of a Science, Self Analysis are fine but what do raw public make of Intro to Scientology Ethics and History of Man? I don't think they get much use, although I borrowed Ethics to read four pages that were blank in my own copy.

Alarm bells ring at the idea of telling librarians to destroy older editions. Yes, lending libraries do dispose of old books to make room for new ones, at their own discretion rather than in obedience from orders from outside. But part of the purpose of institutional libraries is to preserve all editions of an important work so that future scholars will be able to compare and trace the changes. This might not be understood by a guy who never completed high school. It's also an out-point that people who claim to be Scientologists would want to destroy books written by L. Ron Hubbard. Compare this to the attitude of Muslims, who treat a copy of the al-Quran with respect however old and tattered it may become.

Friends of mine plus I myself, we have checked several Libraries in our City (a big one).
We haven´t found any LRH-book there.
Of course there might be libraries, who do have some, but "100% libraries - completed",
I mean,...????
I think it´s just a way to get some donations due to another button. Some rather give money for Anti-Drugs, some prefer to give to Libraries. Just another button for money, but no product for it.

I had insight into this campaign, but do not want to disclose the location. I will note what I observed: Libraries were bombarded by Scientologists forcing donations on them. The ones in my area became fed up, as they were forced, as part of accepting the books, to go on camera and be filmed gratefully accepting the books. Many of them became fed up, and rejected the books. Some accepted the books just to get the Scientologists off their backs, and then discarded them later. Both public and staff were hard core pressured to buy sets, which corporate Scientology then passed off as "donations" from Bridge Publications, when in fact, they had been donations from individual staff and public who had paid for them. This was deceptive and dishonest. The normal thing for donations to libraries is for the name of the individual who paid for, or owns the material, to be acknowledged as a donor.

So Bridge Publications and corporate Scientology were claiming credit as being donors, when in fact they were not, but the individuals who paid for them were.

Then, to make matters worse - libraries who were targeted in the campaign were told they had to dispose of any and all existing Scientology books in their collections, and replace them with the new Basics - many libraries did not want to comply with this.

The campaign generated more ill-will, because of all the badgering of libraries and library staff, who are not used to this sort of thing, and the poor public and staff were milked to the bone to buy up sets.

This is a campaign that could have been done so differently, but because of the heavy and harsh enforcement, it went completely south. It ended up as deceptive, a scam, and an epic fail.

I was asked to donate a set of Basics so that LRH could be found in all libraries, so I looked in the library closest to Flag and there were none. I then searched online in libraries and, again, found none. Public was told this program was complete when they next wanted sets donated to the American Indians - who then sold them on Ebay. Complete scam.