Time to Wake Up Again: Advocacy and Engagement in Response to New Laws Regulating Libraries

Almost ten years ago, we published "Wake Up the Nation: Public Libraries, Policy Making, and Political Discourse" in Library Quarterly. This article was a call to arms for library and information science (LIS) researchers to more seriously focus "on the impacts of policies and politics on public libraries" and for library professionals to "wake up the nation on the impacts of these policy and political choices related to public libraries."

Paul Jaeger, John Bertot, and Ursula Gorham

Paul Jaeger is a Professor in the College of Information Studies at the University of Maryland (the iSchool) and Co-Director of the Information Policy and Access Center (iPAC), John Bertot is a Professor in the iSchool and the Associate Provost for Faculty Affairs, and Ursula Gorham is a Senior Lecturer in iSchool and the director of the Master of Library and Information Science (MLIS) program.