Libraries don't have to be "empowered", and this notion is emblematic of everything that is wrong with libraries today. Libraries have charters and are taxpayer funded institutions, not your personal social justice enterprises. And spare me the "town square" metaphor... Town squares are open and objective. Town squares don't have to be "empowered" and they don't have biased actors manipulating the conversation.
Libraries don't have to be "empowered", and this notion is emblematic of everything that is wrong with libraries today. Libraries have charters and are taxpayer funded institutions, not your personal social justice enterprises. And spare me the "town square" metaphor... Town squares are open and objective. Town squares don't have to be "empowered" and they don't have biased actors manipulating the conversation.