[Libs-Or] The Political Librarian Call for Papers: Shaping a Collaborative Information Future, plus a chance to discuss ideas with our Editor-in-Chief

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​We are now accepting papers for the Spring 2026 issue of The Political Librarian <https://www.everylibraryinstitute.org/publishing?fbclid=IwY2xjawPu5WNleHRuA2FlbQIxMQBzcnRjBmFwcF9pZBAyMjIwMzkxNzg4MjAwODkyAAEex4eQDdzlqmdO8lEaCcveAg0IkF9bos_TFuKtXYTn4ByCos7S4_tbXb0NvnM_aem_O0xA9K5w38syQk3vYgegtw>.

If you would like to meet our new editor, Allison Jennings-Roche, and discuss ideas for submissions, please join us for a lunch-hour virtual discussion on Wednesday, February 11th, at noon ET.

RSVP at https://www.everylibraryinstitute.org/meet_allison_jennings_roche_spring_26

If you would like to learn more about The Political Librarian, visit thepoliticallibrarian.org <https://www.everylibraryinstitute.org/publishing?fbclid=IwY2xjawPu5WNleHRuA2FlbQIxMQBzcnRjBmFwcF9pZBAyMjIwMzkxNzg4MjAwODkyAAEex4eQDdzlqmdO8lEaCcveAg0IkF9bos_TFuKtXYTn4ByCos7S4_tbXb0NvnM_aem_O0xA9K5w38syQk3vYgegtw>

Libraries, education, knowledge, memory, and cultural heritage institutions in the US have a shared purpose, vision, and values. In the face of increased political, social, and financial pressure, we hope to find strength in shared practices, goals, and values. Building on the shared work and understanding across and between cultural heritage institutions, the EveryLibrary Institute invites information, memory, library, and cultural heritage professionals, administrators, educators, researchers, policy analysts, and stakeholders to contribute articles, whitepapers, and thought pieces to the Spring 2026 issue of The Political Librarian. This issue will serve as a “big tent” for conversations that will shape the next phase of memory, cultural heritage, and libraries in the United States. 

As we move forward in this time of profound transformation, we know that attacks on libraries, museums, archives, and other memory institutions will likely continue unabated for the foreseeable future, and we welcome articles that address the very real threats facing our institutions right now. By harnessing our collective expertise, skills, and shared frameworks, we have the opportunity to build and rebuild the information landscape into something that will better serve our communities, our ethical commitments, and our professions long into the future. This issue seeks to platform the scholarship, work, and opinions of those working and thinking across the information spectrum, encouraging the kind of creative and coalition-building thinking that will serve us long into the future.

We are actively seeking work that foregrounds opportunities to engender collaboration and find even deeper alignment in practices, process, and ideological underpinnings. Collectively, we need to seek opportunities to encourage dialogue at national, state, and local levels in order to shape the kind of information landscape that will emerge in the wake of the sweeping social change transforming American public life. Memory institutions may have institutional differences in the kinds of materials that they ensure access to, and in the types of educational activities they provide; those differences are not visible to those who seek to prevent access and education, and also immaterial to a cohesive and collaborative information future. 

Submissions are welcome from all levels of information, memory, library, and cultural heritage professionals, administrators, educators, researchers, policy analysts, and stakeholders.

 Submissions are encouraged for, but are not limited to, the following areas:

  - Research and scholarship about these issues,
  - Shared frameworks, politics, ideologies,
  - Experiences of practitioners, including wins and losses,
  - Communications strategies,
  - Points of collaboration,
  - Disciplines, communities, frameworks we could learn from, even outside “memory and cultural institutions”, 
  - Advocacy, Lobbying, and Fundraising,
  - Rhetoric and messaging,
  - Law and policy,
  - Historical context,
  - Community engagement,
  - Friends organizations and other supporters of memory, library, and cultural heritage institutions,
  - Archives, museums, and libraries as pillars of democracy
  - Workplace strategies,
  - Types of services, and
  - Communities served by memory and cultural heritage institutions.

Submissions of complete papers of any length are welcome and should conform to the journal's style and formatting guidelines at the time of submission. Authors are encouraged to review recent issues when preparing their paper. Visit http://www.thepoliticallibrarian.org/

The Political Librarian bring together perspectives from all the types of information institutions to share experiences, build common ground, and begin the process of crafting a unified response to the laws, policies, technologies, and social movements seeking to undermine the education, knowledge, memory, and cultural heritage institutions and infrastructure in the US and to hone the ideological and practical alignments that will support the coalitions and infrastructure necessary to shape a collaborative and transformational information future. 

Submissions of complete papers for the Special Issue will now be accepted until April 1st, 2026, and should be submitted through the journal site.

EveryLibrary Institute
https://www.everylibrary.org/



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