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From Makeshift to Mainstay

When COVID-19 shuttered businesses, schools, and public spaces in March 2020, we knew little about the virus and how long it would last. But even in the absence of answers, library workers did what...

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The Power of One

Comedian, actor, and disability advocate Maysoon Zayid said that in a hypothetical Oppression Olympics, she would win the gold medal. “I am Palestinian, I’m Muslim, I’m a woman of color, I am divorced,...

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The Reasons for Unions

Why start a union? How do you go about organizing? And how do you combat the fear that comes with the process? At “An Introduction to Organizing and Collective Bargaining in Libraries,” a session at...

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Methods for Mobilizing

Since its founding in 2021, Moms for Liberty has become the most notorious and prolific political organization pushing for book bans at schools and libraries across the country. “What Moms for Liberty...

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Completing the Walk

Pluck a passage from the woods and you might almost think it wrote itself. Children’s book author and poet Nikki Grimes strode to the podium and read passages from her forthcoming title, A Walk in the...

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A Boost for Business

Whether you’re a potter, a greeting card maker, or a dog biscuit baker, Baltimore County (Md.) Public Library (BCPL) wants to help you grow your small business. Since 2019, the library’s Pop-Up Shops...

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Role and Responsibility

Native Hawaiian teacher, author, filmmaker, and transgender woman Hinaleimoana Wong-Kalu started with a song in the Niʻihau dialect, and then a greeting in English: “I bring you all the aloha,” she...

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Leading the Way

What does it mean to be a leader? How can relationships help our careers? And how do we create inclusive libraries amid a culture of burnout? These were the questions that guided the Association for...

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Beauty from the Refuse

Something, Someday, a new picture book authored by poet Amanda Gorman and illustrated by Caldecott Medal honoree Christian Robinson, is a book about fixing problems. It makes space for hope and...

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Newsmaker: Tracy K. Smith

Author, professor, and librettist Tracy K. Smith is as prolific as she is distinguished. She has won a Pulitzer Prize for Poetry (for 2011’s Life on Mars), earned a National Book Award nomination (for...

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