Weeding, or culling old, damaged or outdated books, is standard practice in libraries. But in some cases it is being used to remove books because of the viewpoint they express.
Might work with books copies of which can no longer be obtained. Besides, vandalism as a vigilantism looks pretty poor stance to me
Edit: now that I gave it more thought, vandalism is sometimes the only way to express oppressed views. But I am against specifically secretly damaging communal books
TLDR: people are damaging books they want removed from the library. These books are pulled from circulation as part of a process called “weeding”.
But when books are weeded, a fresh copy is ordered to replace it. So this vandalism isn’t really accomplishing anything.
Might work with books copies of which can no longer be obtained. Besides, vandalism as a vigilantism looks pretty poor stance to me
Edit: now that I gave it more thought, vandalism is sometimes the only way to express oppressed views. But I am against specifically secretly damaging communal books
If the same books are constantly getting destroyed, the library may consider no longer replacing them in order to avoid the cost.