To better understand how and why libraries respond to crises, it is important to understand that there is something of a rift among librarians and that they can, for the most part, be broken into two groups. Group one believes library professionals sign up to be in deep service to their community and understand that they may be called on as second, and sometimes first, responders. Group two believes they signed up to be information professionals and protectors of freedom of speech, not emergency responders. There is plenty of crossover between these two philosophies, but every librarian I know
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