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Specific Communities

How can libraries effectively serve specific communities, especially those that are currently vulnerable, underrepresented, or underserved? Here, we also link out to two separately maintained, pre-existing resource lists from our partners at Que(e)ry.

• Accessibility and Disability

• Black Lives Matter Resource List

• Children, Teens, & Young Adults

• Civil and Human Rights

• Homelessness and Poverty

• Immigration, Refugees, and Citizenship

• Incarcerated and Formerly Incarcerated People

• Indigenous Communities

• LGBTQI+ Library Resources (via Que(e)ry)

• Minority Students in Higher Education

• Palestine Solidarity

Education

How can libraries support literacy, intellectual freedom, critical thinking, and other educational goals, especially for underserved or underrepresented groups?

• Censorship & Suppression

• Fact Checking, Fake News, Media Literacy, & Propaganda

• Fair Use, Net Neutrality, & Open Access

• Free Speech, Intellectual Freedom, & Protests

• Literacy and Languages

• Privacy, Surveillance, & Security

• Social Media

Management

How can internal library management and operations support sustainability, inclusion, workers' rights, and other goals? How can libraries and library workers effectively advocate for themselves and for their values? 

• Cataloging, Metadata, Collecting, and Acquisition

• Codes of Ethics and Codes of Conduct

• Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion in Libraries

• Health and Pandemics

• Labor, Staffing, Training

• Library/Government Relations and Advocacy

• Resisting in Library Work

• Sustainable Libraries

Outreach

How can libraries' public activity, including programming, services, and collections, support political activism and activists?

• Library Displays, Exhibits, & Programs

• Literature and Art of Resistance

• Reference, Instruction, and Public Service

Preservation

How can libraries document the history of political resistance and preserve vulnerable collections?

• Archiving Resistance History

• Preserving Vulnerable Data and Collections

General Resources 

Whether or not you're a library/archives worker, you can find some more general reading lists and resources on political action here:

• Political Action for All People

• Reading Lists

• Self Care and Mutual Aid