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While the contemporary censorship movement is driven by aggressive demands for book bans in libraries and schools, the motivations and goals fueling the movement are far more complex. Examining these motivations and goals, this article argues that the movement is intentionally deploying censorship and disinformation to pursue cultural erasure of specific marginalized communities. By drawing on not just library and information science, but economics, psychology, and other fields of knowledge, this article explores the movement's objectives, origins, political approaches, deployment of technology, and tactics learned from previous movements. This detailed excoriation of the contemporary censorship movement, and the living legacy of its powerful antecedents, is intended to provide informational professionals and their supporters with a richer understanding of the threats that they are confronting and strategies for engaging these threats. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article celebrates the 95th year of Library Quarterly, a significant milestone in the field of librarianship. It highlights the journal's role in providing intellectual continuity and addressing key topics that have shaped the profession over the past century. The journal's upcoming centennial is marked by special articles and issues focusing on democracy, health, race, and equity, reflecting the current critical time in librarianship. The editors emphasize the importance of libraries in supporting intellectual freedom, promoting literacy, and fostering equity and inclusion, especially in the face of challenges such as censorship and disinformation. [Extracted from the article]

In the United States, the occupation of law librarianship has existed longer than the American Library Association, and law librarians have their own professional organization that is now more than 100 years old. Throughout this history, however, the related issues of degree requirements and education standards for law librarians have been repeatedly discussed, but never resolved. While some of this inertia may arise from each organization hoping that the other would settle the issue, the largest challenges appear to stem from a lack of communication between law librarians and other parts of the field and a near-complete neglect of the education of law librarians--along with law libraries as an entity--in overall library pedagogical and research discourse. This article explores the roots of the long-running concerns about the educational preparation of and the professional standards for law librarians in the United States and offers ways in which library and information science educators can contribute to addressing these concerns.

As technology continues to advance at a rapid rate, it is increasingly important to consider how information policies are formulated and the impact that they have on both the public's access to information and the roles of information professionals. As such, current and future information professionals must be adequately prepared through education to work with information policies and their ramifications. The breadth of information policy, as it acts as a meta-policy for other policy areas, and the depth of specific information policies that arise from communication, economic, and political issues, inform this discussion of the challenges and opportunities involved with teaching information policy to library and information science students, as well as to other audiences. Drawing from both past research efforts and extensive teaching experience, this article introduces a conceptual understanding of information policy; uses examples of how the library and information studies community has responded to information policies in the past to further this understanding; and finally, provides a discussion of different ways in which to teach this complicated, but critical topic.

Introduction: This paper attempts to build bridges between two sets of theoretical concepts related to information behaviour: the macro-level concepts of Jurgen Habermas related to lifeworlds and the micro-level concepts of Elfreda Chatman related to small worlds. Argument: Habermas and Chatman explored similar issues of information behaviour at different levels of society. Each conceptualized the ways in which the access, exchange, and communication of social and political information shaped society. The two approaches can be seen as complementary tools that, in combination, may be able to provide a better approach to explicating the access and exchange of social and political information in society. Development: This paper first examines the elements of these theories and their relationship to social and political information. It then explores the connections between these two sets of concepts and how, when used in conjunction, they may help to illuminate our understanding of information behaviour related to information in the public sphere. The combined use of these concepts is demonstrated in relation to Internet-based forums of political discussion. Conclusions: The uses for these concepts in unison have utility not only in terms of abstract notions of information behaviour but in understanding the influence of public policy on public discourse.

An I LQ i special issue next year will explore another way that libraries and their supporters can combat antilibrary efforts: through direct civic engagement. As we write this editorial, the legislatures of more than a half-dozen states have passed laws with criminal penalties for librarians, although some governors have vetoed the legislation and the state court in one case blocked implementation of that state's law. [Extracted from the article]

"The 1918 Influenza Pandemic in Popular Media and the Roles of Public Libraries in Supporting Health Information Access, Health Literacy, and Health Justice during Pandemics: Learning from the Past to Prepare for the Future." Libraries have been widely and justly praised for their creativity, resourcefulness, and tenacity in finding ways to meet community needs during the novel coronavirus pandemic that began in earnest in early 2020. [Extracted from the article]

Events unfolding around the COVID-19 pandemic have historical parallels, particularly relating to health disparities and health injustice; limited health information literacy; failure of the US federal government to launch an organized response and clearly inform the public; and widespread misinformation and disinformation, along with their health-damaging and life-threatening impacts. These themes have been prominent during earlier pandemics, including smallpox outbreaks and the 1918 influenza pandemic. In this article, we discuss these themes and findings from our exploratory investigation into how the 1918 influenza pandemic was portrayed in women's magazines, how extensive misinformation and disinformation circulated (especially patent medicine advertisements), and how libraries strove to overcome numerous challenges (similar to today's) to continue to meet the public's needs and help them navigate the flood of misinformation and disinformation. In conclusion, we discuss important lessons learned from previous pandemics that can help libraries to serve the public optimally during future pandemics. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

On the same day that Russia launched its genocidal invasion of Ukraine, the I New York Times i decided to publish an editorial written by a professional far right provocateur who attacked libraries for providing books that represent the true diversity of human experience and identity.[1] As with so many critics of access to information, his objections were over access to very specific kinds of information; he used emotive but malleable terms like "woke" to critique librarians who help patrons understand systemic structures that promote inequities and injustices. In the intervening time, the American Library Association (ALA; [3]) has revealed 2021 to be the worst year for challenges to and bans of books since such challenges have been tracked. The beloved librarian who just months ago was valiantly facilitating curbside book pickups and running outdoor distanced-learning activities for children in the community, despite the pandemic, is now a monster corrupting and "grooming" the children with forbidden books. As the ALA ([3]) revealed in its I State of American Libraries i report, 1,597 books had been challenged by the end of 2021 with proposed bans, an exponential increase from previous years' numbers. [Extracted from the article]

Purpose: People with disabilities are less active and experience increased burden of disease compared to those without disabilities. Leisure time physical activity (LTPA) participation is strongly related to improved health in all populations. Despite this, research with amputees focuses heavily on prosthetic design and function, leaving amputees an under-represented population in LTPA and motivation research. This study explored the lived experiences of motivation to engage in LTPA among amputees. Method: Interpretative phenomenological analysis (IPA) approach, influenced by understandings of embodiment and Self-Determination Theory (SDT), was used. Six people with lower extremity, acquired amputations created a photo-diary of their motivations to be active and participated in two in-depth interviews each. Results: Study findings suggest motivations to be active among amputees are primarily influenced by personal relationships. Barriers, facilitators, and processes to be active provided insight into how LTPA participation may be affected by more than motivation. Embodiment was experienced as bodily integration of the prosthesis. Conclusions: There is evidence that the relationship between motivation and participation is not direct, but influenced by facilitators, barriers, and processes to be active. The results suggest strategies to increase activity among amputees by emphasizing LTPA with others, improving the built environment, and ensuring prosthesis fit. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Her research area and interests include user services, Latinx use of information organizations, academic library administration, library management, and organizational storytelling in library environments. Her research interests include information ethics, censorship, intellectual freedom, information policy, public libraries, privacy, and qualitative research methods. Her research has explored how data curation can support equitable data reuse and how a community's data reuse capacity can be enhanced through proper data curation support. [Extracted from the article]

The seemingly limitless amount of false information online, especially about important political and current events, has become an increasingly sizable problem for the health of democratic governance around the world, most especially in the realm of social media. Misinformation online now has significant tangible real-world impacts, with libraries being the best situated social institution to help prepare all users to identify misinformation and navigate through the online environments in which it lives. This article proposes the idea of lifelong information literacy—the teaching and reinforcing information literacy to all users at every opportunity. The constantly changing nature of misinformation online merits treating information literacy education as a continual process for all libraries. To maintain their long-cherished and hard-earned role as arsenals of democracy, libraries need to consider how to become arsenals of lifelong information literacy. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]