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100 1  Oliver, Amanda. 
245 10 Overdue :|bReckoning with the Public Library|h[Hoopla 
       electronic resource]. 
264  1 [United States] :|bChicago Review Press,|c2022. 
264  2 |bMade available through hoopla 
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520    "One part love letter, one part eulogy, Overdue tells the 
       story of America's public library system . . . Amanda 
       Oliver proves herself a vibrant new literary voice . . . 
       This is a book for all book lovers." -Reza Aslan, author 
       of Zealot: The Life and Times of Jesus of Nazareth   When 
       Amanda Oliver began work as a school librarian, fueled by 
       a lifelong love of books and a desire to help, she felt 
       qualified for the job. What she learned was that 
       librarians are expected to serve as mediators and mental-
       health-crisis support professionals, customer service reps
       and administrators of overdose treatment, fierce loyalists
       to institutionalized mythology and enforced silence, and 
       arms of state surveillance.   Based on firsthand 
       experiences from six years of professional work as a 
       librarian in high-poverty neighborhoods of Washington, DC,
       as well as interviews and research, Overdue begins with 
       Oliver's first day at Northwest One, the DC Public Library
       branch where she would ultimately end her library career. 
       Through her experience at this branch, Oliver highlights 
       the national problems that have existed in libraries since
       they were founded, troublingly at odds with the common 
       romanticization of the library as a shining beacon of 
       equality: racism, segregation, and economic oppression. 
       These fundamental American problems manifest today as 
       police violence, the opioid epidemic, widespread 
       inaccessibility of affordable housing, and a lack of 
       mental health care nationwide-all of which come to a head 
       in public library spaces.   Can public librarians continue
       to play the many roles they are tasked with? Can American 
       society sustain one of its most noble institutions?  
       Libraries will not save us, but Oliver helps us imagine 
       what might be possible if we stop expecting them to. 
538    Mode of access: World Wide Web. 
600 10 Oliver, Amanda|c(Librarian) 
650  0 Public librarians|vBiography. 
650  0 Public libraries|xPolitical aspects. 
650  0 Public libraries|xSocial aspects. 
650  0 Public libraries|zUnited States. 
650  0 Electronic books. 
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