Re:To Restore Civil Society, Start with the Library
by kasey_junk on Sunday September 09, 2018 @08:06AM
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As with all professions you'll find individual librarians that have political positions all over the board.
The biggest professional organization for them in the USA (the ALA) is not officially politically aligned, but some of their core positions, notably privacy, intellectual freedom and anti-censorship have of late have come to be seen as politically left and in the States especially more aligned with the Democratic party.
Demographically librarians in the United States do lean liberal but I don't know that they do at any higher rates than other educated people.
Finally, this is not just an American thing. The IFLA has very similar positions on privacy, intellectual freedom and censorship and monitors those positions around their world.
The biggest professional organization for them in the USA (the ALA) is not officially politically aligned, but some of their core positions, notably privacy, intellectual freedom and anti-censorship have of late have come to be seen as politically left and in the States especially more aligned with the Democratic party.
Demographically librarians in the United States do lean liberal but I don't know that they do at any higher rates than other educated people.
Finally, this is not just an American thing. The IFLA has very similar positions on privacy, intellectual freedom and censorship and monitors those positions around their world.