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"Librarians Can't Be Neutral in the War on Information" by Dave Shumaker (April 12, 2022)

Many of us librarians hold the view that we are supposed to be neutral information providers. That is, we provide exactly the information we are asked to provide, without making judgments about it. If we have judgments, we keep them to ourselves. This neutrality encompasses the process of adding materials to our collections as well as providing services to information seekers. ... [But] librarians do not operate as neutral information providers in practice. Moreover, we can't and shouldn't try to do so. Making good judgments, and helping others to make them, is essential to our professional role.

"The FYI on CRT" by Anthony Aycock (Jan. 25, 2022)

Critical race theory (CRT) is a way of thinking about America's past. Developed by legal scholars in the 1970s and 1980s, it centers on the idea that racism is more than the overt discriminatory acts of select white people; it is baked into the nation's institutions, both public and private. To those scholars, racism is our country's default setting, requiring above-average efforts to eliminate. [This article shares] resources [that] offer more background into the theory's origins and application.

"An Info Pro's Guide to Supply Chain Disruption" by Amy Affelt (Sept. 21, 2021)

As with most complex economic issues, there are myriad factors working in tandem to produce multiple pressures on a global scale. ... [E]xperts [have become] increasingly concerned about the logistics of a fragile global supply chain—and the role it plays in the ability to provide critical nutrition by getting fresh produce out of the fields and onto trucks. ... [T]he prices of gasoline and automobiles, along with increased demand, supply chain glitches, a national labor shortage, and drought in countries such as Argentina and Brazil—which are major figures in the corn, coffee, and soybean markets—all play a role in the surge in the cost of food. It also blames a shipping container shortage, which is causing ships to wait at ports, sometimes for weeks at a time, to unload.