<div dir="ltr">Pardon me -- Petersen.</div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Sun, Sep 6, 2020 at 5:32 PM Anna Skinner <<a href="mailto:factwrangler@gmail.com">factwrangler@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr">The journalist Anne Helen Peterson has written a compelling essay in response to Eric Klinenberg's recent suggestion in the New York Times that libraries just might be able to save the 2020 election.<div><br></div><div>She writes: "Librarians have a front row seat to our failures as a democracy. Maybe, instead of laying the task of solving that failure at their feet, we should do something revelatory: listen to them."</div><div><br></div><div>Full text available at: <a href="https://annehelen.substack.com/" target="_blank">https://annehelen.substack.com/</a><br><div><br></div><div>Anna </div><div><br>-- <br><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div><div style="color:rgb(0,0,0)">~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~</div><div style="color:rgb(0,0,0)">Anna Skinner</div><div style="color:rgb(0,0,0)"><a href="mailto:factwrangler@gmail.com" target="_blank">factwrangler@gmail.com</a></div></div></div></div></div></div></div>
</blockquote></div><br clear="all"><div><br></div>-- <br><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><div style="color:rgb(0,0,0)">~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~</div><div style="color:rgb(0,0,0)">Anna Skinner</div><div style="color:rgb(0,0,0)"><a href="mailto:factwrangler@gmail.com" target="_blank">factwrangler@gmail.com</a></div></div></div></div>