Henry Rollins Loves EveryLibrary

Henry Rollins Loves EveryLibrary

Huffington Post: 4.30.2014 by Christian Zabriskie

Founder, Urban Librarians Unite

Now that we have come off of the polemics and nostalgia (both of which are awesome, mind you) it is a good time to remember that Henry Rollins loves libraries.

Henry Rollins really, REALLY loves libraries. This should really come as no surprise. He has always been the punk intellectual, and the old-school cool of the library fits perfectly with his persona of "don't box me in."

What is surprising (and fantastic, seriously, just fantastic) is how smart he is about it. When you look at the interview, it is like he is a long-term foot soldier for the social change inherent in libraries. This is a guy who gets it. He understands the leverage inherent with libraries, the fact that we are in everyone's backyard and accessible to all. Rollins does not put libraries in a box, does not make them objects of nostalgia and romance; no, he sees them as a genuine force in people's lives.

He is smart enough to endorse EveryLibrary, the national library Super PAC and to his credit that is some seriously next gen support of libraries. EveryLibrary is an amazing, nimble, creative organization. It has wide-ranging and diverse impacts. Headed by John Chrastka, an old veteran of the library wars, and powered by librarians and citizen-advocates across the country, it is a knife-in-the-teeth advocacy machine fighting hard for a libraries in a way that gets huge props from people across the library and social action worlds.  READ MORE !