The Library Is Never Neutral

Abstract

I want to acknowledge from the outset that this article has been heavily influenced by a number of people who have shared their work and their thoughts with me over the years. I’ve been privi-leged to learn from them, in some cases formally through their publications and in some cases through conversations on twit-ter or even in person. These aren’t the only folks whose work and thinking have influenced me, but they are the key people I think of when I think of critical work on the intersections of libraries, technology, higher education, and social justice. These are their names—a mix of students, librarians, scholars, and technologists. Again, this is not a comprehensive list of the people whose work inspires me, but they are my top 7 right now on these topics.

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