About The Political Librarian
The Political Librarian is dedicated to expanding the discussion of, promoting research on, and helping to re-envision locally focused advocacy, policy, and funding issues for libraries.
We want to bring in a variety of perspectives to the journal and do not limit our contributors to just those working in the field of library and information science. We seek submissions from researchers, practitioners, community members, or others dedicated to furthering the discussion, promoting research, and helping to re-envision tax policy and public policy on the extremely local level.
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Volume 8 • Issue 2 • 2025 • Fall Special Issue
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Talking Back in Defense of Defending DEI and the Politics of Inclusion
Nicole A. Cooke
2025-12-08 Volume 8 • Issue 2 • 2025 • Fall Special Issue
Citation Please: Executive Orders, DEI, and the Fight for Intellectual Freedom
Aisha M. Johnson
2025-12-08 Volume 8 • Issue 2 • 2025 • Fall Special Issue
What is Lost in "Restoring Truth and Sanity:" Queer Approaches to Absence, Silence, and Erasure in Archival Description
Evan M Allgood and Travis L Wagner
2025-12-08 Volume 8 • Issue 2 • 2025 • Fall Special Issue
“I Have Friends Everywhere”: A Fieldguide for Community Archive Activists
Joseph Sherren and Ronald Padrón
2025-12-08 Volume 8 • Issue 2 • 2025 • Fall Special Issue
You Work for the Public; Your Thoughts Aren’t Sacred: Responding to Antelman’s False Crisis in the Privacy of Thought
John Mack Freeman
2025-12-08 Volume 8 • Issue 2 • 2025 • Fall Special Issue
We Already Know (Better): Private Thoughts, C/overt Harm, And A Call to Center Beneficence in Librarianship
Kaetrena Davis Kendrick
2025-12-08 Volume 8 • Issue 2 • 2025 • Fall Special Issue
Truth-Telling in Library Land: In Defense of Emancipatory and Justice-Based Frameworks in Library and Information Science
Amber Matthews and Jamillah R. Gabriel
2025-12-08 Volume 8 • Issue 2 • 2025 • Fall Special Issue
Halting the Digital Equity Act: Stop-Work Order on Bridge for Digital Divide
Kara Malenfant
2025-12-08 Volume 8 • Issue 2 • 2025 • Fall Special Issue
Between Compliance and Belonging: Navigating DEI in Restrictive Climates
Eric Z Glenn
2025-12-08 Volume 8 • Issue 2 • 2025 • Fall Special Issue
When Our Work Becomes Illegal: Navigating Anti-DEI Laws in Kentucky
Alexandra Howard and Courtney Shareef
2025-12-08 Volume 8 • Issue 2 • 2025 • Fall Special Issue
Library Censorship As a Health and Safety Issue
Bill Crowley
2025-12-08 Volume 8 • Issue 2 • 2025 • Fall Special Issue
Land of the Free, Home of the Brave: Maximizing Free Speech in Brave Spaces to Support Diversity
Sarah Beth Nelson and John William Nelson
2025-12-08 Volume 8 • Issue 2 • 2025 • Fall Special Issue
“DEI is Unlawful”: Examining Academic Libraries’ Response as Institutional Isomorphism
Regina Gong and Silvia Vong
2025-12-08 Volume 8 • Issue 2 • 2025 • Fall Special Issue
From Archive to Action: Building a Black-Centered Information Ecology Through BGLAM
kYmberly Miesha Dionn Keeton
2025-12-08 Volume 8 • Issue 2 • 2025 • Fall Special Issue
In My Mother’s Compound: The Consequences of the Erasure of Igbo Women’s Trauma During the Biafran War and Its Relations to the Nullification of African-American Womanist History in the United States.
Kimberly Chiamaka Okeke
2025-12-08 Volume 8 • Issue 2 • 2025 • Fall Special Issue
Coordinated DEI Political Attacks in President Trump’s Executive Orders through the Lens of Critical Theory: Libraries Deconstructing Dysfunctional Political Rhetoric to Further Social Justice
Bharat Mehra
2025-12-08 Volume 8 • Issue 2 • 2025 • Fall Special Issue
Inclusive Collection Development Doesn't Stop at the Statement: Access and Reference Service at Schlesinger Library as Case Study
Mimosa Shah and Madeleine Murphy
2025-12-08 Volume 8 • Issue 2 • 2025 • Fall Special Issue
Universities as Sites of Class Conflict
Nicholas Cummins
2025-12-08 Volume 8 • Issue 2 • 2025 • Fall Special Issue
Defending DEI and the Politics of Inclusion by Engaging Them: Postcards from the Edge of Someone Else’s Dream
Joseph Winberry
2025-12-08 Volume 8 • Issue 2 • 2025 • Fall Special Issue