Ep 24 - Libraries, "Democracy", and Intellectual Freedom with Sam Popowich

In anticipation of the (now cancelled) British Columbia Library Association 2020 conference on “Libraries, Democracy, and Action,” Sam Popowich, author of Confronting the Democratic Discourse of Librarianship: A Marxist Approach, talks about intellectual freedom and what democracy means in libraries.

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Read along with the transcript: https://tinyurl.com/ya9gkmwg

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