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Since the passage of the Post-9/11 GI Bill in 2009, colleges and universities have seen an increase in enrollment of veterans and service members from the conflicts in Iraq and Afghanistan. In order to help meet the needs of this very distinct population, these institutions... Read more

In this episode, I conclude my conversation with Alessandra Seiter about the myth of library neutrality. We'll talk about her sociohistorically informed model of intellectual freedom and find out how individuals and institutions have challenged the idea of library neutralit... Read more

For years, libraries have presented themselves as neutral and apolitical spaces. But with the American Library Association's recent attempt to change the language in an interpretation of the Library Bill of Rights to allow groups openly espousing hate speech equal access to... Read more

In this segment, I conclude my conversation with Ken McDouall, library associate at the Washington Corrections Center for Women (WCCW) in Gig Harbor, Washington. We talk about censorship of library materials, the qualities of a successful prison librarian, and how Ken feels... Read more

In this episode, I'll share the first part of my conversation with Ken McDouall, library associate at the Washington Correction Center for Women (WCCW), a mixed-security facility with an incarcerated population of around 970, located on the Kitsap Peninsula about half an ho... Read more

In this segment, we meet Jameson Rohrer, Senior Librarian at Centinela State Prison in Imperial, California. Jameson has been using Twitter, Instagram, and Facebook to solicit donations of comics and graphic novels in order to build collections in the five prison libraries ... Read more

What's the first thing you think of when you hear the word "librarian"? If you're like most people, the images you conjure up come from a variety of sources, including movies, TV, and popular culture, but they typically don't reflect who librarians are or what kind of work ... Read more