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www-progressivelibrariansguild-org-1816		PL46final.indd	2018-08-08	5	.pdf	application/pdf	2462	143	53	November 8, 2016, the Public, and Libraries1 What is the library in the life of its given public now, and Keywords: neoliberalism, volunteerism, public sphere, libraries and society So how have libraries' publics changed? and the resulting effect on libraries' relationship to its public is our focus. Neoliberal ideas have been translated in political terms: declining budget and ascendency of neoliberal economic, technological, social, and political public's interactions with libraries? is undemocratic if a library's public thinks of consumer choice as the right of choice, but a public demanding these approaches from a library is another alternative defined by a neoliberal public in the life of the library: those in need are not a public in the life of the library. Returning to the practical definition of a library's public as an analytical Libraries face, in short, a changed public whose support for institutions Libraries face a public that has 	./cache/www-progressivelibrariansguild-org-1816.pdf	./txt/www-progressivelibrariansguild-org-1816.txt