A public library today has information to improve people’s lives. We are an enabler; we are a connector.

ON LIBRARIESI was visiting public libraries and ultimately writing my dissertation about them and realizing it’s not about people engaging with kind of romanticized documents. There is some of that in the library, but it’s also compromised bodies interacting with compromised bodies, often the most marginalized people in societies and also really... See more

Public libraries are often seen as “opportunity institutions,” opening doors to, and for, the disenfranchised.