Laurie Putnam

Libraries, learning, and the free flow of information. We’ll need them even more tomorrow.

[Laurie Putnam @NextLibraries]

We’ve learned a lot about the nature of media manipulation and the ways we can counter it.

It’s time to get serious about putting the research to work in more newsrooms.

https://t.co/zj9mAl1VaV

[Laurie Putnam @NextLibraries]

Have you been to the library lately?

“As other communal support networks have suffered cutbacks and disintegrated, the library has found itself as one of the only places left with an open door.”

Well done, @nickhunebrown @thewalrus

https://t.co/JMfZ71Plw6

[Laurie Putnam @NextLibraries]

On those book bans in Missouri

Some details of this evolving story may already be dated, but boy not this passage

@E_Hellerstein @CodaStory
https://t.co/LBbTBSJ0h9

[Laurie Putnam @NextLibraries]

A Day in the Life of a Library

About @mrrl, and what this Missouri library means to its community. Thanks to @JackieValley @csmonitor

https://t.co/rGCGzKAJUt

[Laurie Putnam @NextLibraries]

.@Surgeon_General has a 6-part prescription for rebuilding human connections:

#1. Strengthening social infrastructure, which includes things like parks and libraries as well as public programs.

https://t.co/TNd8gkWb70

[Laurie Putnam @NextLibraries]

“Libraries, and librarians, stand at the crossroads of opportunity and information...”

https://t.co/itS1LjtKe8

[Laurie Putnam @NextLibraries]

Once upon a time, there was an award-winning library system in Montana.

https://t.co/7WrZCsbgZR @NewYorker

[Laurie Putnam @NextLibraries]

At the same time they help others find jobs, libraries may be struggling with their own financial worries

https://t.co/jdIqP8Ke8v @Marketplace

[Laurie Putnam @NextLibraries]

A celebration of community libraries and their expanding role

“There are so many things happening there that have nothing to do with books.”

https://t.co/HOZgByASCl

[Laurie Putnam @NextLibraries]

“As local safety nets shriveled, the library roof magically expanded from umbrella to tarp to circus tent to airplane hangar.

"The modern library keeps its citizens warm, safe, healthy, entertained, educated, hydrated and, above all, connected.”

https://t.co/Z0rkaT18p7

[Laurie Putnam @NextLibraries]

Thankful for libraries

https://t.co/3RxLpzcClU

[David Beard @dabeard]

America's public libraries really are miracles.
https://t.co/G521DftDBP

[Laurie Putnam @NextLibraries]

@macinnes_neil Thank you for giving others a way to learn from your pain. You may have saved someone else today.

[Laurie Putnam @NextLibraries]

Students Lose Access to Books Amid "State-Sponsored Purging of Ideas"

Deborah Caldwell-Stone of the American Library Association’s Office for Intellectual Freedom said "she has never seen such a strong, successful movement to limit the ability to read."

https://t.co/zxH5TVIJWH

[Laurie Putnam @NextLibraries]

Public Libraries Try to Stay Politically Neutral as Calls for Defunding, Censorship Increase

https://t.co/H1GcEzwA5u

[The Takeaway 🎙 @TheTakeaway]

We spoke with Deborah Caldwell-Stone, Director of the American Library Association’s Office for Intellectual Freedom (@ALALibrary), about #bookbans and the threat they pose to public libraries and First Amendment rights.

[Laurie Putnam @NextLibraries]

The librarian who defied the Taliban

“I've wasted too much time not being able to read... I don't want the same for the future generations of my country.”

https://t.co/FStHlZiJHU

[Margaret Sullivan @Sulliview]

Book bans are threatening American democracy. Here’s how to fight back. My new column https://t.co/knJUqGi3vk