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We are now accepting papers for the Spring 2026 issue of The Political
Librarian. If you would like to meet our new editor, Allison
Jennings-Roche, and discuss ideas for submissions, please join us for
a lunch-hour virtual discussion on Wednesday, February 11th, at noon
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<span>Libraries, education, knowledge, memory, and cultural heritage
institutions in the US have a shared purpose, vision, and values. In
the face of increased political, social, and financial pressure, we
hope to find strength in shared practices, goals, and values. Building
on the shared work and understanding across and between cultural
heritage institutions, the EveryLibrary Institute invites
</span><span>information, memory, library, and cultural heritage
professionals, administrators, educators, researchers, policy
analysts, and stakeholders to contribute articles, whitepapers, and
thought pieces to the Spring 2026 issue of The Political Librarian.
This</span><span> issue will serve as a “big tent” for conversations
that will shape the next phase of memory, cultural heritage, and
libraries in the United States. </span>
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<div><span>As we move forward in this time of profound transformation,
we know that attacks on libraries, museums, archives, and other memory
institutions will likely continue unabated for the foreseeable future,
and we welcome articles that address the very real threats facing our
institutions right now. By harnessing our collective expertise,
skills, and shared frameworks, we have the opportunity to build and
rebuild the information landscape into something that will better
serve our communities, our ethical commitments, and our professions
long into the future. This issue seeks to platform the scholarship,
work, and opinions of those working and thinking across the
information spectrum, encouraging the kind of creative and
coalition-building thinking that will serve us long into the
future.</span></div>
<div><span>We are actively seeking work that foregrounds opportunities
to engender collaboration and find even deeper alignment in practices,
process, and ideological underpinnings. Collectively, we need to seek
opportunities to encourage dialogue at national, state, and local
levels in order to shape the kind of information landscape that will
emerge in the wake of the sweeping social change transforming American
public life. Memory institutions may have institutional differences in
the kinds of materials that they ensure access to, and in the types of
educational activities they provide; those differences are not visible
to those who seek to prevent access and education, and also immaterial
to a cohesive and collaborative information future. </span></div>
<div><span>Submissions are welcome from all levels of information,
memory, library, and cultural heritage professionals, administrators,
educators, researchers, policy analysts, and
stakeholders.</span></div>
<div><span> Submissions are encouraged for, but are not limited to,
the following areas:</span></div>
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<li><span>Research and scholarship about these issues,</span></li>
<li><span>Shared frameworks, politics, ideologies,</span></li>
<li><span>Experiences of practitioners, including wins and
losses,</span></li>
<li><span>Communications strategies,</span></li>
<li><span>Points of collaboration,</span></li>
<li><span>Disciplines, communities, frameworks we could learn from,
even outside “memory and cultural institutions”, </span></li>
<li><span>Advocacy, Lobbying, and Fundraising,</span></li>
<li><span>Rhetoric and messaging,</span></li>
<li><span>Law and policy,</span></li>
<li><span>Historical context,</span></li>
<li><span>Community engagement,</span></li>
<li><span>Friends organizations and other supporters of memory,
library, and cultural heritage institutions,</span></li>
<li><span>Archives, museums, and libraries as pillars of
democracy</span></li>
<li><span>Workplace strategies,</span></li>
<li><span>Types of services, and</span></li>
<li><span>Communities served by memory and cultural heritage
institutions.</span></li>
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<span>Submissions of complete papers of any length are welcome and
should conform to the journal's style and formatting guidelines at the
time of submission. Authors are encouraged to review recent issues
when preparing their paper. Visit </span><span><a
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<div><span>The Political Librarian bring together perspectives from
all the types of information institutions to share experiences, build
common ground, and begin the process of crafting a unified response to
the laws, policies, technologies, and social movements seeking to
undermine the education, knowledge, memory, and cultural heritage
institutions and infrastructure in the US and to hone the ideological
and practical alignments that will support the coalitions and
infrastructure necessary to shape a collaborative and transformational
information future. </span></div>
<div><strong>Submissions of complete papers for the Special Issue will
now be accepted until April 1st, 2026, and should be submitted through
the journal site.</strong></div>
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