Tell us Emily (5/6): Embracing the Value of Freedom of Information

 

Tell us Emily (5/6): Embracing the Value of Freedom of Information
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I think nothing could be more important than making sure that everyone has access to the information that they need and that means a couple of things first. It means making sure that book banning and censorship attempts that we push against those and make sure they don't happen, but also Freedom requires resources, right? Or most free, when we have the resources that we need to. Is the information that we want. So I think any project that puts the library at the center of a community or an institution shows that you're invested in the Freedom of Information and it means we have to put a lot of resources into that institution so that we have the most information we possibly can have access to and that we have the people, the staff, The Librarians and Library staff that do the work of connecting people to that information. Freedom is a bigger concept. And just sort of imagining that everybody could access it, right? Freedom requires resources, and it requires Investments. And that's what I think is most important in our libraries today,

About:

Emily Drabinski is Critical Pedagogy Librarian at the Graduate Center, City University of New York. She publishes and presents widely on topics related to knowledge organization, information literacy, and critical perspectives in librarianship. Drabinski edits Gender and Sexuality in Information Studies, a book series from Library Juice Press/Litwin Books. She is a contributing writer at Truthout. 

She will serve as president of the American Library Association in 2023-24.

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