Libraries at the End of the World

Abstract

Since 2021, libraries have become a target of organized forces seeking to suppress the stories of LGBTQIA+ and BIPOC people and our histories. Attempts to remove books from library shelves have reached record numbers while legislation in states from Florida to Idaho to Texas to Missouri have enshrined censorship into law. Such restrictions on the right to think, write, and read place libraries at the center of the fight for democracy.

Emily Drabinski

Graduate School of Library and Information Studies, Queens College, City University of New York

Emily Drabinski’s work focuses on critical perspectives in librarianship, including knowledge organization and information literacy and instruction. Drabinski is the immediate past president of the American Library Association.