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I see I have been booted from the Florida Library Association Facebook group. (October 11-12, 2015) I post factual statements about some of my experiences dealing with librarians here in Florida in my 224 613 Project. I hope people will get involved with this effort to balance the scales for survivors/victims of crimes by giving them the best possible information of a practical nature on their rights and the services available to them. It certainly involves public as well as other types of libraries here in Florida. I will try to get back into the Florida Library Association Group but it seems like again politics has reared its ugly head in the form of censorship-- from a group of Facebook people devoted to libraries. I hope that people will also look at the documents I have provided here.(These are on my Facebook page) I did much of this work as you can see from an address in Palm Harbor, Florida where I lived from 1996 through 2005 before leaving for better opportunities in many areas in the Villages, Florida. The Florida Library Association's President is now Gene Coppola, the Palm Harbor Library Director whom I fought with over a link to the Florida Victim Services Directory and a link from it in 2004 from the Palm Harbor Library where I had been a volunteer for three years or so. I had also volunteered at the East Lake Community Library for about three years. I was volunteering at these two Palm Harbor Libraries for 10-14 hours per week. The 3-02-2004 certified letter from the Palm Harbor Library General Counsel is the result of my e-mails to Palm Harbor Library fellow volunteers and some staff about the disappearance of the link to the Florida Victim Services Directory. Gene Coppola insisted that a link to the Lemon Laws was a link to the Florida Victim Services Directory. I asked his reference staff who also agreed with me that this was not a link to the Florida Victim Services Directory. Coppola responded I guess with contacting the Palm Harbor Library General Counsel with this extremely upsetting certified letter to me. I was being the honest party in this dispute. I have tried to get these facts to light on the Florida Library Association Group on Facebook but again have been met with intimidation in the form of being blacklisted or blackballed or thrown out of the room so to speak. I had been volunteering at these two Palm Harbor Libraries to hopefully find work in a public library in that area but was never successful. Actions like this 3-02-2004 certified letter and my overnight disappearance from the Florida Library Association on 10/12/2015 should speak volumes of the need for more transparency in the politics within librarianship in Florida as well as elsewhere. The 3-02-2004 certified letter threatened me with a lawsuit which if I had pressed in a fair world I would have won as the facts were on my side but we all know I hope that the legal arena is not always a just one, just one reacting to the political culture at that place and time.


Lawsuits also need first a lawyer to take your case (and many do not seem to want fights that will not earn them money), money, and most the ability for the family involved in them to withstand the stress. Gene Coppola in 2004 was the then Chairman of the Palm Harbor Chamber of Commerce or at least the former Chairman of the Palm Harbor Chamber of Commerce. He was still lying about the link to the Florida Victim Services Directory.
Victim Services Directory

Florida Attorney General - Lemon Law (main page)

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If you really want to get involved with this fight contact your local community library and see what they have on their web-site which is of a practical nature for survivors/victims of crimes.

The Palm Harbor Library in 2015 does have something now but my guess is that Gene Coppola or someone at the Palm Harbor Library only put that up after the NFL Domestic Violence scandal as what is on there seems to date from 2014. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ray_Rice


It is something though. Palm Harbor Library Research https://www.youtube.com/playlist?lis...uuJhY-ZRRGq-z6

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I had been volunteering for a month or so and was set to meet our new Director-- the previous one had scolded a volunteer for taking a too long coffee break as well as liked to watch porn movies in his office with the door partially open. The New Director upon meeting me --a fellow holder of a MA in Librarianship told me with his first statement to me that "I do not like liars and whiners". A few minutes later he made me an offer he thought I could not refuse. He said that he wanted 50% of anything he could get for the library by helping me with my project to get practical materials in libraries for survivors/victims of crimes. This is my 224 613 Project which was going strong at that point. I said "No" to his offer but continued volunteering after adding a stint at volunteering for two more days a week at the sister library in the same community which was under the final control of this New Director. I was never all that popular at either of these libraries though probably because of the offer I could not refuse. I had started volunteering in the first place to hopefully get a door into employment in a public library near the city where I lived with my parents.

This tells why I felt I needed to volunteer at two libraries in the Palm Harbor Library and why also I try to do things in writing and where many people can see what is going on in their communities. Remember that libraries are supposed to be about access to information of all kinds especially that of politics in their local communities as well as those at the state level. Gene Coppola is now the President of the Florida Library Association so his trustworthiness, honesty, integrity and the like do reflect back on libraries here in Sumter, Lake, and Marion Counties.

I do hope that you will Google a little and look at the documents I have in my 224 613 Project to get practical materials into libraries of all kinds for survivors/victims of crimes. This is based on my experiences with the Michelle Mitchell 2-24-1976 murder of my then Earl Wooster High School teacher's daughter near the University of Nevada, Reno campus. 2-24 is my birthday and the Michelle Mitchell murder is probably now solved in 2015 but is still an open case as far as I know. It is connected to the Gypsy Hill murders in the San Francisco Bay area. These were murders of 5 or more women in the first four months of 1976. The primary suspect of these killings is a Michigan man named Rodney Halbower who is now in prison in Oregon.

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My request to rejoin the Florida Library Association Facebook group is still pending.

Not many people on there today.

I just wonder how someone can get away with lying like this?

I had hoped that some other Palm Harbor Library volunteer, ex-volunteer, former employee, employee would have the guts to stand up to the lies of Gene Coppola but instead the honest people like me get thrown off of places trying to get people to see the truth or Gene Coppola basically runs them out of town through lawsuit threats which happened with the 3-02-2004 certified letter from the Palm Harbor Library General Counsel. This was over the actual working link to the Florida Victim Services Directory which was there and then was not.

I am just so surprised that this crooked man is still the President of the Florida Library Association.

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I do not want people to get the wrong impression of librarians. I would say 95% of the ones I have met are honest, kind, and knowledgeable people. Once in a while though you run into one that acts like a bullying thug and if he has a lawyer paid for by tax monies in his pocket, he just stays there. And if he can capitalize on a world famous name to boot....

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Don't take this the wrong way, but you seem obsessed with this. You just posted 4 posts in a row. And you have started at least 3 or 4 threads on this very subject just in the last few months. Is it that common that someone gets banned from a library? Could you be part of the problem? This seems to be a looooong ongoing battle in your life. This can't be good for your stress level. Could it be time to move on, or at least seek some professional counseling?

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Originally Posted by outlaw

Don't take this the wrong way, but you seem obsessed with this. You just posted 4 posts in a row. And you have started at least 3 or 4 threads on this very subject just in the last few months. Is it that common that someone gets banned from a library? Could you be part of the problem? This seems to be a looooong ongoing battle in your life. This can't be good for your stress level. Could it be time to move on, or at least seek some professional counseling?

I did not get banned from a library. That does happen once in a while but it usually takes some criminal actions of some kind or another on the part of the person being banned like stalking people, putting cameras in bathrooms, attempting to steal books, etc.

I was threatened with a lawsuit if I did not stop pointing out that the Palm Harbor Library Director Gene Coppola was lying about a link to the Florida Victim Services Directory. I did not want to put my parents through the stress of my fighting this through my own lawsuit so I dropped it.

Last month I was invited along with my mother to the retirement party for the Head of Volunteers at Palm Harbor Library, Jeanette Malouf. A very nice, honest, hard working woman who created the Palm Harbor Library from her book collection in her garage. I did not go because of the bad feelings I still have about Gene Coppola and that 3-02-2004 certified letter.

I am obsessed with victims' rights and services which is why I was trying to get a link to the Florida Victim Services Directory into as many public and law libraries in the State of Florida as well as attempting to get links to similar resources in other states from their libraries. This is my 224 613 Project which I have been working on --9 years of this work in Palm Harbor (1996-2005)-- since January 1991 even though I did not start using these numbers until mid-1993.


I have had a lot of problems with some librarians since January 1991 but only Gene Coppola was stupid enough to threaten to sue me based on something as checked easily as a working link to the Florida Victim Services Directory. Victim Services Directory

I have mentioned this advocacy on my part of getting practical materials for survivors/victims of crimes here on Talk of the Villages on-and-off since 2008 or maybe even 2007.

I am trying to get more caring people involved with helping survivors/victims of crimes by checking out what your former community library has to offer in the way of practical materials for survivors/victims of crimes.

There are control freaks like Gene Coppola out there though who if they do not get their way threaten lawsuits and volunteer blackballs if someone crosses them in some way.

With the violence in our society now, having these kind of resources for survivors/victims of crimes as accessible as possible is critical to the recovery of those survivors/victims of crimes. Men and women like Gene Coppola are obstacles to this access if they are not honest about the kinds of problems that survivors/victims have had in the past.

Gene Coppola is now the Florida Library Association President. I do think this is an important topic especially if he or his cronies push me off the of the Florida Library Association Facebook Group for making honest statements critical of Gene Coppola and his cronies. That's why we have a First Amendment to voice our disagreements with bullies like Gene Coppola.


Maybe we also need more links in libraries to the National Alliance on Mental Health as well. One of the tricks I have seen repeatedly since 1991 are attacks on the person making valid criticisms based on that person's mental health rather than actual attempts to fix the real problems. Even Donald Trump saw how despicable that tactic is. https://www.nami.org/

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Originally Posted by outlaw

Don't take this the wrong way, but you seem obsessed with this. You just posted 4 posts in a row. And you have started at least 3 or 4 threads on this very subject just in the last few months. Is it that common that someone gets banned from a library? Could you be part of the problem? This seems to be a looooong ongoing battle in your life. This can't be good for your stress level. Could it be time to move on, or at least seek some professional counseling?

My stress level is fine. Thanks.

If there are any professional retired mental health workers here on TOTV though I would love to talk to you about how we can get more practical materials about mental health in libraries or accessible through Facebook in some way. This seems to be a critical problem with stopping violence developing in the future. That and using mental health labels as weapons to harm our critics rather than using them to heal people. I know bullies have been using labels like "crazy" etc. to get away with demeaning people since there were terms for "crazy", "looney", etc to attack detractors by putting their mental health in question.

I never had a problem like that with Gene Coppola at Palm Harbor Library even he knew that was an extremely low blow.

[outlaw]

Although you are advocating for a noble cause, it appears you are up against a person that holds all the cards, and is able to pull strings to retaliate against you. Seems like a very stressful situation to me. Good luck in your endeavor.

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Originally Posted by outlaw

Although you are advocating for a noble cause, it appears you are up against a person that holds all the cards, and is able to pull strings to retaliate against you. Seems like a very stressful situation to me. Good luck in your endeavor.

Actually, he holds few of the cards. It is a problem though if I want to volunteer at some library in Marion, Sumter or Lake County as I would have to explain just a little bit about my former library experiences in as truthful a manner as possible.

My 224 613 Project has earned me a lot of friends in high places.

I would be very surprised if Gene Coppola tried anything from the Palm Harbor Library General Counsel now. He probably complained to the Florida Library Association about what I wrote about him and as he is the President they listened but if he takes this wider into the limelight of more objective viewers, investigators, etc. the facts should be there. There is that March 2, 2004 certified letter which is a huge blunder and it has no factual basis. I said nothing libelous about Coppola. Libel implies false statements. I was making sincere honest criticisms of the Palm Harbor Library web-site and its lack of a link to the Florida Victim Services Directory. Victim Services Directory His reference staff at that time agreed with me that there was no link to the Florida Victim Services Directory. I still believe in the Florida Constitution and the US Constitution. A thug and bully like Gene Coppola works well in the shadows and behind closed doors. If you open the doors and shine light on a person like this, in a fair world you should win.

There are good people on the Florida Library Association Facebook Group who should be able to shift through the facts and get at the most likely assessment of what actually happened in Palm Harbor, Florida in March of 2004.

He does hold many cards if I lived in Palm Harbor, I do not.

I think that some of those people are just very embarrassed that they voted Gene Coppola in as the President of the Florida Library Association.

In the years I volunteered at Palm Harbor Library (2000-2003) Gene Coppola did bully a lot of people as well as lie to them so maybe some of these will come forward as well and show some courage. I do not believe Coppola became a better person with age just a lot more ambitious and arrogant one. He is a very good liar though being quite shameless.

My being a poster on the Florida Library Association Facebook Group is still in the pending stage. I was kicked off and am trying to get back on. But, there have been very few posts in the last day or so. I posted a lot on there over the past few weeks since being OKed as a member. I do not work in a Florida Library now but my 224 613 Project is very much involved with Florida libraries and their holdings for survivors/victims of crimes. I have lived in Florida since 1996.

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https://www.facebook.com/groups/Flor...ryAssociation/

Here's a link to the Florida Library Association Facebook page. You can probably check for yourself what I wrote about Gene Coppola. It is still there the last I looked.

Censorship of all kinds really bugs me as you can tell. And I do think this is relevant to the Villages as Gene Coppola is the President of the Florida Library Association which does also involve the libraries in Lake, Sumter and Marion Counties.

I have never had any problems with any of the librarians here near the Villages since moving here in 2005 from Palm Harbor where Gene Coppola has been the Library Director since the Summer of 2000. We lived in Palm Harbor from 1996 through 2005.

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Originally Posted by Taltarzac725

https://www.facebook.com/groups/Flor...ryAssociation/

Here's a link to the Florida Library Association Facebook page. You can probably check for yourself what I wrote about Gene Coppola. It is still there the last I looked.

Censorship of all kinds really bugs me as you can tell. And I do think this is relevant to the Villages as Gene Coppola is the President of the Florida Library Association which does also involve the libraries in Lake, Sumter and Marion Counties.

I have never had any problems with any of the librarians here near the Villages since moving here in 2005 from Palm Harbor where Gene Coppola has been the Library Director since the Summer of 2000. We lived in Palm Harbor from 1996 through 2005.

I am back on the Florida Library Association Facebook Group web-site. It does not mean that they believe what I wrote on their Facebook Group page about Gene Coppola. It does mean though that I think they will at least listen or read to what I put up there. Most of it is about what other libraries in the US are doing.

Most librarians I have met since my heavy use of libraries started in the Fall of 1976 while getting BAs at the University of Nevada, Reno and using their libraries heavily are decent, honest people. Almost every one I went to Library School at the University of Denver in 1983-1984 were also fine individuals. The University of Denver is where I got my MA in Librarianship and Information Management. Law librarians are another story as most of them also have JDs and are former practicing lawyers or academics. And, there have been serious problems with the accessibility of practical materials for survivors/victims of crimes ESPECIALLY in our law school libraries.

I hope others will join this Facebook Florida Library Association Group page if you are interested in libraries, education, access to practical information about all kinds of subjects, etc.

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ALA's Legislative Action Center

Here is something I saw on the Florida Library Association Facebook page which looks like a worthwhile cause. https://www.facebook.com/groups/Flor...ryAssociation/

Some of my fellow University of Denver Library School MA candidates were school librarians. There always seemed to be some worry about funding for school libraries.

If you are interested in libraries I hope you will join the Florida Library Association Facebook group and get involved in my 224 613 fight to get more practical materials into libraries of all kinds for survivors/victims of crimes. I would also like to see more materials offsetting the stigmas surrounding mental health. Too many people misuse the ignorance and fear about mental health problems. I have had that dilemma myself often when those in power attack my credibility by putting my mental health in issue rather than addressing the actual problem. That happened starting in 1991 and if you look at my many documents on my Facebook page-- which you should be able to get at rather easily-- you can see it is a very disturbing trend of attacking the person rather than the issue. It is very effective if you are the powerful organization making this attack. I believe this was a favorite tactic of totalitarian regimes like Stalin's USSR and Nazi Germany.