id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt work_r35apudphzdkhkaudgnzus4qau Amelia N. Gibson Libraries on the frontlines: neutrality and social justice 2017 16 .pdf application/pdf 9507 822 52 Many libraries have ignored the Black Lives Matter (BLM) movement, citing the need to implications of education, engagement, and activism for people of color and libraries today. libraries to live up to their core values, they must engage actively with communities, especially when those Keywords Social justice, Libraries, Neutrality, Library as place, African Americans, Black Lives Matter (American Library Association, 2006), it is unsurprising that many librarians consider social students in library and information science (LIS), but also to other research and professional Libraries are not, and have never been, socially or politically neutral institutions (Jaeger and If libraries are to continue to actively engage and support their communities in times of our students with social justice in the classroom, engaging with communities in library available at: http://bookriot.com/2016/07/25/why-public-libraries-should-support-Black-livesmatter/ (accessed October 26, 2016). http://bookriot.com/2016/07/25/why-public-libraries-should-support-Black-lives-matter/ http://bookriot.com/2016/07/25/why-public-libraries-should-support-Black-lives-matter/ (1998), Untold Stories: Civil Rights, Libraries, and Black Librarianship, Publications Office, ./cache/work_r35apudphzdkhkaudgnzus4qau.pdf ./txt/work_r35apudphzdkhkaudgnzus4qau.txt