Our Impact
Over the past six years, Library Futures has led a shift in global policy conversations around digital rights advocacy and information accessibility.
Where we show up
National and international coverage, from an interview about AI slop on the CBC to features in Publisher's Weekly, the Washington Post, 404 Media, Vice, and TechDirt. All our press
Regular invitations to give keynotes and speak at professional conferences on libraries and access to knowledge, tech law, information activism, and digital rights, plus op-eds and think pieces in The Objective, The Hill, and the Daily Beast. Here I would put a link to something
Active membership of the Re:Create Coalition, Access to Knowledge Coalition, and United Against Book Bans, with close collaboration alongside the Digital Public Library of America, American Library Association, New York Public Library, Knowledge Rights 21, Library Freedom Project, and Authors Alliance, among others.
Major influence on digital rights, libraries, the right to read, and balanced copyright, from state model legislation on access to digital books, passed in Connecticut, to our Supreme Court brief in Moody v. NetChoice.
Community voices
"I feel better prepared to advocate for fairer digital rights for libraries, and to advance the kind of innovative community-building library programs that I want to see in the world."
"I had never been in a program nearly as well designed as this. To, while still a student, work on projects that I meaningfully care about is amazing."
"I came to appreciate the importance of contract literacy in shaping the information environment."
"The experience gave me a pathway to pursue a career in the digital humanities."
"Professionally, our group's research and discussions convinced me that I needed to act in my work capacity as well to help amplify the concerns about, and ramifications of, generative AI content in the marketplace... Libraries should feel confident that they understand what they are getting before they purchase and our work aims to provide them some transparency on that front. Overall, working in this group has motivated me to make positive impact on the library community in my own small way."