Laurie Putnam

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. j.mp/2OdOFMD

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 bit.ly/3Cq2tN1

On those book bans in Missouri Some details of this evolving story may already be dated, but boy not this passage @E_Hellerstein @CodaStory bit.ly/45P7hsv

A Day in the Life of a Library About @mrrl, and what this Missouri library means to its community. Thanks to @JackieValley @csmonitor bit.ly/42c9FXo

.@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. npr.org/2023/05/02/117…

“Libraries, and librarians, stand at the crossroads of opportunity and information...” edsource.org/2023/gov-newso…

Once upon a time, there was an award-winning library system in Montana. bit.ly/3LH6stH @NewYorker

At the same time they help others find jobs, libraries may be struggling with their own financial worries bit.ly/3nbDvNo @Marketplace

A celebration of community libraries and their expanding role “There are so many things happening there that have nothing to do with books.” bit.ly/3EglT83

“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.” bit.ly/3xoLZC7

Thankful for libraries bit.ly/3gxAx2m

America's public libraries really are miracles. bloomberg.com/news/articles/…

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

Well a most amazing friend - killed themselves today - check in on folk - understand there they are ok and ask - question and make sure- I didn’t

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." wapo.st/3pxXbZ6

Public Libraries Try to Stay Politically Neutral as Calls for Defunding, Censorship Increase youtube.com/watch?v=zq6WVF…

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.

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.” bbc.in/3PeS3nn

Book bans are threatening American democracy. Here’s how to fight back. My new column wapo.st/3zI7KxA