• Volume 8 • Issue Special Edition • 2025 • Special Issue

    Volume 8 • Issue Special Edition • 2025 • Special Issue


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A Love Letter to Libraries in Our Darkest Hour: An Introduction to a Special Issue of The Political Librarian, “The 2024 Election and the Future of Libraries”

Allison Jennings-Roche and Paul T. Jaeger

2025-04-16 Volume 8 • Issue Special Edition • 2025 • Special Issue

Contextualizing This Issue: Events Affecting the Institute of Museum and Library Services Since January 20, 2025

EveryLibrary Institute

2025-04-16 Volume 8 • Issue Special Edition • 2025 • Special Issue

Sentiments on the State of Libraries After the Election 

Andrew Thomas Sulavik

2025-04-16 Volume 8 • Issue Special Edition • 2025 • Special Issue

Thank You for Your Service to the American Public: A Perspective from a Fired Federal Worker

Carrie Price

2025-04-16 Volume 8 • Issue Special Edition • 2025 • Special Issue

Dear Professors: Teaching Archiving in Times of Continued Uncertainty and Unrest 

Britney Bibeault

2025-04-16 Volume 8 • Issue Special Edition • 2025 • Special Issue

The Urgent Need for Political Literacy in LIS Education

Sonya M. Durney

2025-04-16 Volume 8 • Issue Special Edition • 2025 • Special Issue

Information Literacy Should Be About Democracy, Not Databases

Stephen Kiel

2025-04-16 Volume 8 • Issue Special Edition • 2025 • Special Issue

Recognizing and Resisting Censorship in Online Safety Bills: A Framework for Libraries

Katherine Klosek

2025-04-16 Volume 8 • Issue Special Edition • 2025 • Special Issue

“Heritage Is More than a Job”: Implications of Project 2025 on the Future of Libraries, Archives, and Museums

Lydia Curliss, Qadira Locke and Paul T. Jaeger

2025-04-16 Volume 8 • Issue Special Edition • 2025 • Special Issue

A Service as Easy as Ordering Takeout: Tech, Startups, and the Business Ontology

Jennie Rose Halperin

2025-04-16 Volume 8 • Issue Special Edition • 2025 • Special Issue

Culture War by Executive Order: President Trump’s Cultural Directives and the Threat to Libraries and Museums

John Chrastka

2025-04-16 Volume 8 • Issue Special Edition • 2025 • Special Issue

Fight if You Can Win. Otherwise, Negotiate.

Bill Crowley

2025-04-16 Volume 8 • Issue Special Edition • 2025 • Special Issue

Safeguarding Libraries, Schools, and Communities from Political Threats: A Strategic Framework for Engagement, Advocacy, and Sustainable Organizing

Kacey Carpenter

2025-04-16 Volume 8 • Issue Special Edition • 2025 • Special Issue

Clarifying Intellectual Freedom, Neutrality, and Professional Expertise to Better Defend Libraries from Books Bans, Disinformation, and Defunding   

Paul T. Jaeger and Allison Jennings-Roche

2025-04-16 Volume 8 • Issue Special Edition • 2025 • Special Issue

November 5, 2024: Three Sources of Lessons for Libraries

John Buschman

2025-04-16 Volume 8 • Issue Special Edition • 2025 • Special Issue

Mapping Racism, Charting Change: A Regional Approach to Incorporating the Striving Towards Anti-Racism (STAR) in LIS Model 

Rachel D Williams and Nicole A Cooke

2025-04-16 Volume 8 • Issue Special Edition • 2025 • Special Issue

Seven Mantras of Information Wisdom and Political Acumen for American Libraries in the Aftermath of the 2024 Presidential Election

Bharat Mehra

2025-04-16 Volume 8 • Issue Special Edition • 2025 • Special Issue

Gender, Politics, and The Public Library: How Polarization and Feminization Conspired to Destabilize One of “The Most Trusted Professions” 

Allison Jennings-Roche

2025-04-16 Volume 8 • Issue Special Edition • 2025 • Special Issue

Upholding Trust in Library Partnerships with Immigrants: Reflections on the Impact of Trump 2024

Ana Ndumu and Hayley Park

2025-04-16 Volume 8 • Issue Special Edition • 2025 • Special Issue

Libraries: Guardians of Democracy

Nancy Kranich

2025-04-16 Volume 8 • Issue Special Edition • 2025 • Special Issue

On Moving Forward

The Librator

2025-04-16 Volume 8 • Issue Special Edition • 2025 • Special Issue

We Are Not Helpless: Some Lessons for Libraries, Archives, and Museums from a Lifetime of Researching Policy, Political, and Legal Processes

Paul T. Jaeger

2025-04-16 Volume 8 • Issue Special Edition • 2025 • Special Issue