<div dir="ltr"><div><span style="font-weight:400">The conventional wisdom is that
libraries are a local matter.</span></div><div><span style="font-weight:400"><br></span></div><div><span style="font-weight:400">It was a given that library funding and
policies were decided by local voters across hundreds of local zip codes
and that the top of the ticket and national politics don’t matter. <br></span></div><div><span style="font-weight:400"><br></span></div><div><span style="font-weight:400">Last
night we </span><a href="https://www.everylibrary.org/library_watch_party_2024"><span style="font-weight:400">watched as local election results</span></a><span style="font-weight:400">
rolled in. As a country, we believed that - if given the opportunity -
people would support the First Amendment and the right to access diverse
collections.</span></div><p><strong>This ended on Election Night, 2024. <br></strong></p><p><strong>Read EveryLibrary's Post Election Analysis here - <a href="http://everylibrary.org/election2024">everylibrary.org/election2024</a></strong></p></div>