EDITORIAL

Additionally, we launched a beautiful new website and blog; increased our social media presence; we published issue #45 of Progressive Librarian, and sponsored a program on neoliberalism and librarianship at the annual conference of the American Library Association, the papers presented are in this issue of PL. The articles and documents contained in ths issue stand as testament to the attention library and archive workers are giving to demands for social change. A major focus of this issue is neo-liberalism and the insidious spread of policies that continue to de-professionalize library workers, utilize business models to determine the value of resources (human and otherwise) and erode public space for political education, community building and dissent. There is also attention to other relevant topics within librarianship as Brattland analyzes the information source preferences in social media communities with focus on the Brock Turner rape case as an example; Patino and Latham describe a project designed to support the day-today information needs of a community group, in this case Planned Parenthood; and our Braverman essayist looks at personal health data tracking technologies.