Fighting Flames: Information Infrastructures in Trying Times

The UCLA Department of Information Studies invites faculty, staff, and students to its Information Studies Colloquia.

Presented, Researched, and Written by Dr. Emily Drabinski, Queens College, City University of New York

Since 2021, efforts to censor materials and programming have compounded ongoing disinvestment in public institutions, leaving libraries struggling to fulfill their missions. As protesters disrupted storytimes and library board meetings, library workers, patrons, supporters, and advocates have organized to fight these assaults on the right to read. This talk asks what gets lost when resources are wholly directed at the fire in front of us, and what our responsibilities are to build boring things at the end of the world.

No RSVP is needed to attend.