R.H. Lossin, The Nation. April 14, 2008. Five years ago, U.S. troops watched as mobs sacked Iraq's National Library and Archives. Despite little outside help, a cultural treasure soldiers on.
Chip Ward, Tomdispatch.com. April 2, 2007. A dirty little secret about America is that public libraries have become de facto daytime shelters for the nation's street people while librarians are increasingly our unofficial social workers for the homeless and mentally disturbed.
Susie Bright, SusieBright.com. February 21, 2007. Squeamish school librarians, screaming at a single word they deemed "offensive," have put the screws to an award-winning children's book.
Leslie Burger, AlterNet. December 14, 2006. Congress needs to act now to reverse the E.P.A.'s closing of tax-payer funded libraries, which contain potentially life-saving information about our environment.
Kelpie Wilson, TruthOut.org. November 23, 2006. The White House has begun closing the Enviromental Protection Agency's research libraries to the public and to its own staff, cementing Bush's reputation as usher of a new dark age.
