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   Eira Tansey (teammidwest@glammr.us)'s status on Saturday, 14-Sep-2024 08:34:08 JST Eira Tansey

   I need someone to give me a backstory behind the creation of this org. https://alplibraries.org/

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     Eira Tansey (teammidwest@glammr.us)'s status on Saturday, 14-Sep-2024 08:34:04 JST Eira Tansey

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     Yall, I’ve been listening to the know your enemy podcast since their early days and deliberately read conservative news outlets for a reason. As a terminally online leftist I’m not naive about what’s going on with the rhetoric on this website, my question about this organization’s back story is whether they have formal ties to other right-wing organizations or if this is more of a clubhouse for disaffected conservative librarians and archivists.

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     Eira Tansey (teammidwest@glammr.us)'s status on Saturday, 14-Sep-2024 08:34:05 JST Eira Tansey

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     I will say that from my time working as library faculty chair at a major ARL, I am very unsurprised by the creation of an organization like this. For reasons I can't explain (my Quaker predilection for listening to anyone who wants to talk with me? WHO KNOWS?!) I have often had conservative/heterodox types disclose to me their sense of alienation from a lot of librarianship stuff in recent years. I don't know how to address that, but it's a phenomenon that absolutely exists, even if it's small.

     Bill repeated this.
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     Eira Tansey (teammidwest@glammr.us)'s status on Saturday, 14-Sep-2024 08:34:07 JST Eira Tansey

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     I'd rather not disclose where this conversation is taking place, but I have seen this explicitly presented as an alternative for library/archives workers who are seemingly alienated by the main library/archives professional associations (left unstated in what I've seen but I assume is also the implication that it's meant for those with conservative perspectives)