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Questions for a Librarian? (Patreon)

Published:
2025-04-06 16:43:43
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2025-04

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We're going to be interviewing a radical librarian today, focusing on how libraries can help foster community involvement and how you can help defend your local library from fascism! Any questions you'd like us to bring to the interview?

Comments

Kathleen

I think it would be great to ask about the contradiction regarding safety and the police state in libraries.

Why

How best can we use libraries to organize? How easy/hard is it to rent rooms, hold meetings/events?

Dylan Spicer

How much do you think libraries have a role as a secular space? Not in an anti religious way, but somewhere that can be a location for all groups to gather so dozens of reasons without a specific dogma required to use it?

Emmy Rae

What can library patrons to do help keep books from being removed from libraries, and prevent legislation like in Idaho making libraries less accessible to children

Jacqui

A bit of a tongue-in-cheek question, but: I have the urge to hide queer and trans literature under my floorboards. Is this actually helpful? What can library patrons do to defend radical and/or banned books and zines that already exist in libraries?

Orchidspork

How do we protect third spaces, including libraries, but generally as well?

Orchidspork

Another question: what was being funded by humanities grants that can be picked up elsewhere? Example, talking libraries.

Orchidspork

Also happy National Library Workers Day!

Sturdy

1) As someone whose local library systems are chronically under-funded but not under ideological threat (yet), what can I do to support libraries and librarians in other places. 2) What is a better way to donate to/fundraise for/support libraries apart from "Friends of the Library" bookstores and sales? The ones near me, though active, are extremely classist, hierarchical, and unwelcoming to new people and new ideas.

Cazz

As a library worker how do you best recommend on being an activist from within? Are there any good resources you recommend?

Cazz

Check your local libraries room spaces and policies on what is allowed. For my system each location has rooms of various sizes for the community to reserve for free. The only limiting policy is that the group is not for-profit. We've had plenty of activist groups, union groups, etc. utilize the space for events and meetings! Could start a book club and host it at one of the libraries. I hope that helps a bit <3