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It's the Policies, Stupid! Why Kamala Lost and Why Libraries May Have a Future After All
A guest post by Mark Y. Herring, retired academic librarian
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Better Questions
Rethinking Information Literacy
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S. Anderson
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CFP: National Forum on Privacy Literacy, March 10-11, 2025
Privacy educators and scholars are invited to register for Libraries Stand for Privacy: National Forum on Privacy Literacy Standards and Competencies.
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Sarah Hartman-Caverly
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Against “Radical Empathy” as a Core Professional Principle: An Open Letter to the ALA Working Group on Intellectual Freedom and Social…
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Have Efforts to Suppress Gender-Critical Books and Speakers Done "Irreversible Damage" to Librarianship?
 • Michael Dudley
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Library Neutrality and Pluralism: A Manifesto
 • Michael Dudley
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Timeline: The Board Firing of Niagara-on-the-Lake Public Library CEO Cathy Simpson
 • Michael Dudley
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Bold Book Discussions: Patric Gagne's Sociopath
 • S. Anderson
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Wicked Problems and Comprehensive Doctrines: Interventionism and Social License in Librarianship
 • Michael Dudley
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Have Efforts to Suppress Gender-Critical Books and Speakers Done "Irreversible Damage" to Librarianship?
Why the release of four major reports on the negative impacts of gender identity ideology should compel a re-examination of our profession's seemingly…
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Michael Dudley
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The Counterculture of Pluralism
A Field Report
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Craig Gibson
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"Am I Racist?" (Film Essay)
Matt Walsh’s devastating exposé of the DEI industry offers important insights into current approaches to social justice in librarianship.
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Michael Dudley
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The Ontario Library Association Defames Us All
By an Anonymous Public Librarian
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The Stewards of History Desperately Need Mises
Editor’s note: This piece was originally published in the Mises Wire on 9/10/2024 under a CC BY-NC-ND license.
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Jonathan Lawler
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The Good Projects
(and What Librarians Can Learn from Them)
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Craig Gibson
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Confronting Critical Librarianship Podcast, Episode 1: "Not the Shark, but the Water."
A close reading of this influential 2021 book chapter reveals it to be weakened by unwarranted assumptions, unsupported assertions, straw man…
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Michael Dudley
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Heterodoxy in the Stacks
Heterodoxy in the Stacks
Intellectual freedom, library neutrality, and libraries in democracy
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