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Librarians in the 21st Century: It Is Becoming Impossible to Remain Neutral

Librarians in the 21st Century: It Is Becoming Impossible to Remain Neutral

Stacie Williams on How to Confront Microaggressions in the Library

By Stacie Williams | May 4, 2017

The Search for a Lost Self in the Far North

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Sallie Tisdale Wanders Out Onto the Ice

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State Censorship: How the Library of Congress Came to Define Obscenity

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On the Virtually Unknown History of the Delta Collection

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"History is malleable, it reshapes itself so easily, too easily"

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In the End, Everyone Will Have a Mugshot: On the Birth of the Police

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The Police Came Into Being to Answer a Single Question:
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