Joe Kohlburn is a doctoral candidate in information science, librarian, activist, and an arts advocate in St. Louis, MO.
I wrote an op-ed for the KC Star back in June to advocate on behalf of the long suffering Intellectual Freedom heads in Missouri. It's a dismal state of affairs, per usual, for school librarians, parents, kids, and others who value the freedom to read. Stickers of the below title are available for free if …
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Adkins, D., Bossaller, J., Butler, E., Castaño, W., Cho, H. and Kohlburn, J. (2024), "Commitment to Justice, Empathy, and Community During COVID-19: Results from a Three-Phase Study of Public Libraries", Irvin, V. and Mehra, B. (Ed.) Reading Workplace Dynamics: A Post-Pandemic Professional Ethos in Public Libraries (Advances in Librarianship, Vol. 55), Emerald Publishing Limited, Leeds, pp. 63-76. https://doi.org/10.1108/S0065-283020240000055006 This chapter concludes our three-phase study of institutional responses to COVID-19 …
Earlier this week, we sent a letter to the Cameron School Board in Cameron, MO objecting to recent blocking of standing orders for books speaking to diverse readership, as well as use of BookLooks, which frankly is an absolute Orwellian nightmare of a censorship platform. A day or so later, we received a response from …
Great news today! Our MLA-IFC won the Robert B. Downs Intellectual Freedom Award given by University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign! As always it is a great honor to be part of the MLA-IFC when it isn't winning awards, but I'm incredibly excited that our long years of work (especially long over the past 3 or so …
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Joe Kohlburn 