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“I Have Friends Everywhere”: A Fieldguide for Community Archive Activists

https://journals.library.wustl.edu/pollib/article/id/9152/

Published: December 8, 2025 13:00

“I Have Friends Everywhere” is an opinion piece written by Joseph Sherren and Ronald Padrón in light of the massive erasure and displacement of public data under the custodianship of the U.S. government. This piece is a call to arms along with a down to…

Citation Please: Executive Orders, DEI, and the Fight for Intellectual Freedom

https://journals.library.wustl.edu/pollib/article/id/9147/

Published: December 8, 2025 13:00

This scholarship examines the ethical and professional implications of recent executive orders that directly affect the library and information science (LIS) field, particularly as they intersect with diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) initiatives,…

We Already Know (Better): Private Thoughts, C/overt Harm, And A Call to Center Beneficence in Librarianship

https://journals.library.wustl.edu/pollib/article/id/9141/

Published: December 8, 2025 13:00

As direct actions and corresponding documentation of the brisk desertion of equity, diversity, and inclusion (EDI) values and activities continue within the United States academic landscape, troubling ideas linking EDI efforts to invasions of privacy are…

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

https://journals.library.wustl.edu/pollib/article/id/9145/

Published: December 8, 2025 13:00

This article examines the impact of President Trump’s executive orders, selected and analyzed through a lens of critical theory, on the representation of diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) initiatives. It calls for strategic intervention by libraries…

Land of the Free, Home of the Brave: Maximizing Free Speech in Brave Spaces to Support Diversity

https://journals.library.wustl.edu/pollib/article/id/9148/

Published: December 8, 2025 13:00

Responding to arguments that diversity and free speech are competing values, we recommend brave space practices to maximize both speech and diversity. This article first lays out what is actually required and allowed by law from public institutions…

Haunted by the Past

https://journals.library.wustl.edu/pollib/article/id/9107/

Published: December 8, 2025 13:00

In this opinion piece the author reflects on the past and presence and their parerelled realities espacially in the context of humanity, human rights, immigration, censorship and propaganda. Born in Poland during the last decade of the communist regime the…

Goliath Lost

https://journals.library.wustl.edu/pollib/article/id/9149/

Published: December 8, 2025 13:00

The Executive Order to Restore Truth and Sanity to America’s museums and cultural institutions is an attempt to revise American history.  These directives initiate the eliminations and removal of dissenting and alternative perspectives relating to the…

Defending DEI and the Politics of Inclusion by Engaging Them:  Postcards from the Edge of Someone Else’s Dream

https://journals.library.wustl.edu/pollib/article/id/9161/

Published: December 8, 2025 13:00

This article posits that the most important endeavor library and information science (LIS) community members can undertake to defend DEI and the politics of inclusion is to continue to engage them. I use autoethnographic reflection and analysis to…

Inclusive Collection Development Doesn't Stop at the Statement: Access and Reference Service at Schlesinger Library as Case Study

https://journals.library.wustl.edu/pollib/article/id/9151/

Published: December 8, 2025 13:00

Inclusive collecting practices are an extension of reparative work practiced in contemporary special collections libraries and archives. This article provides an overview of how library staff discussed and contributed to the creation of the Schlesinger…

What is Lost in "Restoring Truth and Sanity:" Queer Approaches to Absence, Silence, and Erasure in Archival Description

https://journals.library.wustl.edu/pollib/article/id/9143/

Published: December 8, 2025 13:00

Since Trump’s second inauguration, over a dozen executive orders have been established that aim to terminate diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) policies and programs, deter the use of inclusive language, and strip away human rights. These executive…