Perspective

The Angriest Librarian Is Full of Hope

After his profanity-laced tweetstorm went viral last week, Portland student librarian Alex Halpern found himself speaking up for his embattled profession.
Children's librarian Chere Brown reads to toddlers at the Josephine County library in Grants Pass, Oregon, whose public funding was restored by voters in 2017. Gillian Flaccus/AP

I didn’t get into librarianship for the shushing, but when the opportunity arises, I seize it. Particularly when it’s someone being wrong on the internet.

That’s what happened this week, when Andre Walker, a columnist for the New York Observer, presented this insight on Twitter.