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Jan 2, 2025 | 
truthout.org | Emily Drabinski
Outside the Khirki branch of Delhi’s Community Library Project, a signboard details the day’s programs, including scheduled story times and art activities. Children bounce and buzz as they wait in line to check out their books. Patrons take advantage of clean public bathrooms, drinking water (in short supply in many of Delhi’s unplanned communities) and internet-connected laptops.
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Dec 6, 2024 | 
hindustantimes.com | Emily Drabinski
The Khirki branch of Delhi’s Community Library Project is filled with books for people of all ages, provides computers with internet for those who lack access at home, offers story time and literacy programmes for children, and offers evening-hour operations to working people who need a quiet place to read and work when homes are loud and crowded.
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Nov 18, 2024 | 
znetwork.org | Emily Drabinski
The Project 2025 blueprint for the next Trump administration sets its sights on two crucial public institutions: libraries and higher education. Librarians show up on page 5 — targeted for their support for LGBTQIA+ reading — while dismantling the Department of Education, eliminating student loan programs, and restricting what can be taught about gender, race and class feature throughout the document.
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Nov 17, 2024 | 
truthout.org | Emily Drabinski
As the war on higher education looks to heat up, academic libraries will likely be the first on the chopping block.
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Aug 27, 2024 | 
truthout.org | Emily Drabinski
Librarians Resist Israel’s Efforts to Destroy Palestinian Cultural HeritageA global network of librarians and archivists is organizing in solidarity with their Palestinian colleagues.
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Jul 15, 2024 | 
popularresistance.org | Emily Drabinski
Above photo: Illustrations by Erik Ruin. A socialist former president of the American Library Association on why defending libraries is fighting capitalism. The Montana State Library Commission voted 5-1 (with one abstention) in July 2023 to rescind its membership in the American Library Association because of the ALA’s then-president: a self-proclaimed Marxist lesbian, which is to say, me.
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Jul 12, 2024 | 
truthout.org | Emily Drabinski
Idaho Law Criminalizes Librarians Who Allow LGBTQ Books to Stay on Their ShelvesAn informal survey suggests that more than half of the librarians in Idaho are considering leaving their jobs. ByEmily Drabinski, TruthoutPublishedJuly 12, 2024Colors Hunter - Chasseur de Couleurs / Moment / Getty ImagesColors Hunter - Chasseur de Couleurs / Moment / Getty ImagesAn informal survey suggests that more than half of the librarians in Idaho are considering leaving their jobs.
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Jun 3, 2024 | 
americanlibrariesmagazine.org | Emily Drabinski
My year as ALA president has been organized around the two principles that animated my campaign for this democratically member-elected position: collective power and public good. I believe that building the former produces and expands the latter.
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May 23, 2024 | 
editorandpublisher.com | Emily Drabinski |Diane Sylvester
Posted Thursday, May 23, 2024 12:00 am I think we need to define censorship more broadly, to think about the problem not just as restricting access to books, but undermining the public library as an institution, undermining public library workers as agents of the public good and sowing fear and anxiety in communities.” Libraries hold a special place in the hearts of many, serving as cherished institutions that foster connections within communities. But over the past few years, U.S. libraries...
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May 1, 2024 | 
americanlibrariesmagazine.org | Emily Drabinski
When you’re president of the American Library Association (ALA), you get asked a lot of questions. “What are you reading right now?” (Pure Life by Eugene Marten.) “Aren’t libraries obsolete?” (Nope.) “Will the organized censors win?” (No way.)But here’s one that’s hard to answer: “What’s your favorite library?”When you’ve seen as many amazing libraries as I have, it’s impossible to choose.
