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Stepping Up at Scale | Editorial
Meredith Schwartz, Jan 05, 2021
When I look at the state of the nation, my first reaction is frustration with squandered opportunities for the federal government to address both pandemic spread and economic hardship. Both could have been considerably ameliorated with sustained, coordinated action from the top over the past 10 months.
Supportive Supervisors | Trans + Script
Elsworth Carman and Carson Williams, Dec 11, 2020
Navigating any place of employment can be complex for transgender and nonbinary people, but having an informed and supportive supervisor can make things easier.
Power to the People | Sustainability
Rebekkah Smith Aldrich, Dec 10, 2020
As we think through the lessons we have learned over the past four years, one thing is quite clear: the way "we've always done things" is not sustainable for the well-being of our communities. We need to seek out those patterns that are emerging to systemically change the policy landscape of our society, economy and the environment and respect that leadership may look different in the coming years.
One Step Forward | Editorial
Meredith Schwartz, Dec 08, 2020
On November 7, Pfizer announced interim findings of a 90 percent effectiveness rate for its SARS-CoV-2 vaccine. On November 16, Moderna announced a similar interim finding of 94.5 percent effectiveness. While there are cautionary notes—these are the companies' numbers, not the FDA's, and at press time the trials were not yet complete—it is still a hopeful sign that the most stringent measures to contain community spread may be behind us by 2022. Yet the right-now coronavirus news is grim.
No Justice, No Peace | Sustainability
Rebekkah Smith Aldrich, Oct 08, 2020
There is a threadrunning through almost all major headlines in our country this year: racial injustice.
The Post Office Is a Library Issue: Public Goods Under Threat | Editorial
Meredith Schwartz, Oct 01, 2020
Because information is critical to an informed electorate, the government formed an institution to ensure affordable access and avoid censorship. As a result, a high literacy rate led to economic growth. I'm speaking, of course, of the Postal Service Act of 1792, decades before the first modern public library opened in Peterborough, NH.
Trans and Nonbinary Library People Are Everywhere | Trans + Script
Elsworth Carman and Jayne Walters, Sep 28, 2020
Welcome to Trans + Script, a column dedicated to amplifying the voices of transgender, nonbinary (nb), and queer library people and highlighting topics related to their experience in libraries. We're in big cities, small towns, rural communities, on military bases, in areas of wealth, and in areas of poverty. Why is that reality important enough to be the first topic in this column? Because even though there are a lot of us and we're everywhere, representation still matters.
The Fog of Implicit Bias | BackTalk
Angela M. Jones and Jarrett Dapier, Sep 18, 2020
How can librarians determine when their implicit bias has guided them into viewing Black patron behavior as dangerous, and hence guided them to call 911, and when a situation is actually dangerous and requires a police response?
Board Barriers | Editorial
Meredith Schwartz, Sep 03, 2020
While exact demographics are hard to come by, the informal consensus seems to be that members of most public libraries' board of trustees or directors are largely white, well-off, and older. Meanwhile, the communities they represent are often far more diverse.
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