My latest column for Library Journal is up!

“The massive change in life circumstances over the weeks since my last column have been strange, terrible, and beautiful—often all at once.

I have watched my colleagues around the world roll up their sleeves and learn new skills, produce programming they never imagined, nurture new partnerships, and accelerate community-wide implementation of plans they’ve had in the hopper for months, if not years. From early literacy programming, to helping bridge the digital divide, to providing social gathering spaces online—it has been a magnificent thing to watch libraries respond to the COVID-19 crisis.

Libraries are doing immediate, deep work to address social inequalities. Here are a few examples I’ve gathered in the past weeks…” Read the full article here.