Palaces for the People
A Conversation with Eric Klinenberg & Dr. Carla Hayden
An ALA Smore report, June 2019
One of the featured lectures at ALA Annual this year was a conversation between social researcher Eric Klinenberg and Dr. Carla Hayden, Librarian of Congress. Klinenberg's book Palaces for the People: How Social Infrastructure Can Help Fight Inequality, Polarization, and the Decline of Civic Life (Crown, 2018) was a starting point for the discussion. This discussion was a powerful argument for libraries and other civic institutions.
Every librarian NEEDS to read this book! This conversation was SO inspiring. Listen to a bit of it in the link below.
Klinenberg, on libraries:
As it happens, you guys are pretty awesome!"
Klinenberg, on radical inclusiveness:
"We need places that are radically inclusive... and I can't think of another institution that is so committed to that project of inclusiveness as the library."
Hayden's response: " I feel a t-shirt coming on: radical inclusiveness @ your library"!
More about Dr. Carla Hayden can be found at www.loc.gov/about/about-the-librarian
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