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The Political Threats of Vanishing Culture and the Need to Protect Our Future Memory
https://journals.library.wustl.edu/pollib/article/id/9287/
Published: July 14, 2026 11:46
Written from the perspective of the Internet Archive and the Our Future Memory movement, this article repeats an urgent call for four digital rights that would allow libraries, archives, museums, and other cultural heritage organizations (“memory…
Not Defeated, or Attacks on Literacy are Attacks on Liberty: Identifying and Confronting the Political, Legal, and Technological Changes Promoting and Sustaining the Censorship Movement
https://journals.library.wustl.edu/pollib/article/id/9296/
Published: July 14, 2026 11:45
As the energized, closely coordinated, and politically empowered censorship movement continues to grind across the United States, education, knowledge, memory, and cultural heritage institutions are confronting different challenges from it. Public…
The Politicization Antibody Effect: How Community-Embedded Directors Can Neutralize Library Politicization
https://journals.library.wustl.edu/pollib/article/id/9237/
Published: July 14, 2026 11:45
National debates over book challenges and culture war politics often frame rural and conservative communities as particularly likely sites of conflict with public libraries. Drawing on constructivist grounded theory interviews with public library directors…
Library Patron Privacy in the Age of Artificial Intelligence: An Overview of Existing Law and Policy Recommendations
https://journals.library.wustl.edu/pollib/article/id/9352/
Published: July 14, 2026 11:45
Public libraries are a source of trust for patrons. They serve as a space for building community and supporting patrons in their thirst for knowledge. They allow patrons to gather information about various topics without fear that their research and…
Ellen Starr Brinton: Â Archivist and Activist for Peace in Time of War
https://journals.library.wustl.edu/pollib/article/id/9285/
Published: July 14, 2026 11:45
Ellen Starr Brinton served as the first Curator of the Swarthmore College Peace Collection from 1935 to 1951. She combined her professional work establishing the special collections library and archives at Swarthmore College outside Philadelphia,…
Where Is 60 Years of Data, Information, and Knowledge One Year After USAID Was Fed “Into the Wood Chipper”?
https://journals.library.wustl.edu/pollib/article/id/9286/
Published: July 14, 2026 11:45
When the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) was dismantled in early 2025, groups and individuals mobilized to rescue information resources created by staff and partners. The patchwork of federal laws, policies, and guidance,…
Beyond Schools and Libraries: Trump Administration Information Policies in Archives, Museums, and Galleries
https://journals.library.wustl.edu/pollib/article/id/9315/
Published: July 14, 2026 11:45
This article presents, in discussion format, reflections about the information policy issues currently impacting cultural heritage, education, memory, and knowledge institutions. While librarians have naturally focused primarily on the impacts of the…
Shaping a Collabrative Information Future
https://journals.library.wustl.edu/pollib/article/id/9354/
Published: July 14, 2026 11:45
The latest issue of our journal brings together a wide range of perspectives and experiences that share creative and coalition-building frameworks and projects that will serve all librarians, information professionals, and memory workers as we navigate a…
You Work for the Public; Your Thoughts Aren’t Sacred: Responding to Antelman’s False Crisis in the Privacy of Thought
https://journals.library.wustl.edu/pollib/article/id/9097/
Published: December 8, 2025 13:00
This article responds to Kristin Antelman’s “Respecting Privacy of Thought in DEI Training” by challenging the premise that public employees have an unqualified right to cognitive privacy (Antelman 2025). Drawing on legal precedent, professional ethics,…
Universities as Sites of Class Conflict
https://journals.library.wustl.edu/pollib/article/id/9102/
Published: December 8, 2025 13:00
Universities are sites of class conflict, and in this era of renewed reactionary repression and uncoordinated institutional responses, academics generally – and librarians specifically – can leverage this confusion to advocate for material change. Although…