Library Juice 6:16

Speech at the Joint American Library Association/Canadian Library
Association Conference
by Naomi Klein. June 24 2003.

Most of you probably didn’t think that helping people to share books was
subversive when you decided to become librarians.

And it shouldn’t be: sharing, giving, saving and reusing are the most human
of impulses and we are at our best and most human when we act on them. The
desire to share, as you know, is immense.

Yet the fact is that you have chosen a profession that has become radical.

Being a librarian today means being more than an archivist, more than a
researcher, more than an educator – it means being a guardian the embattled
values of knowledge, public space and sharing that animate your profession.

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