Vol. 33 No. 2 (2024): Maine Policy Review

Boot stomping on word libraries as green shoots

A special issue on libraries.

Published: 2024-01-01

Front Matter

Thanks to MPR Donors

Editorial Staff (Author)

3
- 0_TY_donors.pdf
Editors' Letter

David Nutty, Linda Silka, Joyce Rumery, Barbara Harrity (Author)

6
- 0_Editor_Letter.pdf

Essays

“Don’t Know What You’ve Got Till It’s Gone”: Does the Disinvestment in America’s Libraries Signal the End of Civil Society?

Tracie Hall (Author)

7-10
- 01_MCS_Essay_Hall.pdf

Articles

“We’re the Town’s Help Desk:” Social Work Creep in America’s Last Public Space

Diana Furukawa, Olivia Scott, Ben Treat (Author)

11-19
- 02_Furukawa_etal_Help_Desk.pdf
Leveraging Remote Work Services in Libraries: Building Community and Strengthening the Local Economy

Savannah Sessions (Author)

20-24
- 03_Sessions_Remote.pdf
Public Libraries Are Critical Partners for Collective Impact on Climate Action

Rebekkah Aldrich (Author)

25-29
- 04_Smith_Aldrich_Climate.pdf
Libraries and Climate Change: Pathways to Respond and Engage Communities

Kara Reiman (Author)

30-34
- 05_Reiman_Climate.pdf
Investing in School Libraries and Librarians to Improve Literacy Outcomes

Tania Martinez (Author)

35-40
- 06_Otero_Martinez_CAP.pdf
What’s Keeping Public Library Trustees Up at Night?

Deborah Clark, Jenny Smith (Author)

41-48
- 07_Clark_Trustees.pdf
Health Sciences Libraries: A Changing Landscape

Janet Bolduc, Elizabeth Dyer, Linda Kerecman, Dina McKelvy (Author)

52-57
- 09_McKelvy_et_al_Health_Sciences.pdf
Representing Contemporary Immigrant and BIPOC Experiences through USM’s Special Collections

Anna Faherty, Zachary Newell, Jill Roy (Author)

70-74
- 15_Faherty_et_al_Archives.pdf
Maine’s Libraries Weather the War on Books

M.I.L.S. Michelle R. Sampson (Author)

75-78
- 16_Sampson_War_on_Books.pdf
Protecting the Freedom to Read in Maine

Sonya Durney (Author)

79-90
- 17_Durney_Read.pdf
How Will We Ever Resolve the Library Digital Content Problem?

Alan Inouye (Author)

91-95
- 18_Inouye_Digital_Content.pdf
Libraries Stand Ready as Digital Inclusion Comes of Age

Amelia Bryne, Megan Janicki, Marijke Visser (Author)

99-110
- 20_Bryne_etal_Ready.pdf
Digital Literacy Education in Maine's Public Libraries

Michelle Conners (Author)

111-119
- 21_Conners_Digital_Literacy.pdf
Academic Libraries and Open Educational Resources: Addressing Student Textbook Affordability

Krystie Wilfong, Natalie Hill, David Smith, Kate Wing, Ann Spinney, Casey Koons (Author)

120-124
- 22_Wilfong_etal_OER.pdf
“Reduce, Reuse, Recycle”: Managing Library Print Collections

Ann Acheson (Author)

131-134
- 26_Acheson_Print.pdf

Commentaries

Supporting Patron Access to Rural Libraries in Maine through the Balsam Library Consortium

Nancy Grant (Author)

49-51
- 08_Grant_Balsam.pdf
Maine Libraries: An Update on Sharing and Collaboration

Bryce Cundick, James Sanborn (Author)

58-61
- 10_Cundick_MELibraries.pdf
Collaboration in Maine Libraries

David Nutty, Joyce Rumery (Author)

62
- 11_Nutty_Rumery_Collaboration.pdf
Managing a Shared Collection in a Changing World

Matthew Revitt (Author)

63-65
- 12_Revitt_Shared_Collections.pdf
Library Advocacy: Ecosystem Concepts Can Provide a Strong Foundation for Library Advocacy

Jennifer Wood (Author)

66-67
- 13_Alvino_Wood_Ecosystems.pdf
Lewiston Public Library Services for New Mainer Population

Joseph Houston (Author)

68-69
- 14_Houston_LPL.pdf
Advocating for The Once and Future Library

Daisy Singh (Author)

96-98
- 19_Singh_Advocating.pdf
Margaret Chase Smith Library: Supporting Primary Source Research the Archive

Nicole Potter (Author)

125-126
- 23_Potter_MCSL.pdf
Our Library’s Role in Helping Students Make Sense of Generative AI

Shelly Davis, David Rogers (Author)

127-128
- 24_Davis_Rogers_AI.pdf
Libraries Should Be Part of All This Book Talk

Michael Dunn (Author)

129-130
- 25_Dunn_BookTalk.pdf
Book Review: The Library: A Fragile History

Linda Silka (Author)

138
- 29_Silka_Book_review.pdf

Interviews

Interview with Hazel Onsrud

Linda Silka (Author)

135
- 27_Silka_Onsrud_Interview.pdf
Interview with Marijke Visser

Linda Silka (Author)

136-137
- 28_Silka_Visser_Interview.pdf

Back Matter

Thanks to Reviewers for Volume 33

Editorial Staff (Author)

139
- xx_TY_reviewers_v33.pdf