Books about race, gender, sexuality, colonial history—these are among the most challenged titles in Canadian schools and libraries. 🚫📚

This week is Freedom to Read Week (Feb 22–28), and our colleagues at UVic Libraries have created a display that puts those books front and centre—because the best response to a challenge is to read the challenged books! ✊

Stop by McPherson Library to have a look. 👀

📷 Photos by: @Dieter_Boolean

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We talk a lot about threats to libraries—book bans, political intimidation, budget cuts—as a threat to democracy itself.

But what happens when these institutions built to safeguard democracy become vulnerable to undermining it from within — including through their own budgets funding surveillance capitalism?

That question is raised in "Save Troy: Liberate The Library," a provocative micro-essay by Kula's own @Dieter_Boolean, to be published in the new, participative book series 'Bibliothek & Gesellschaft' (Libraries and Society).

📖Read the full argument on our blog 👇
https://kulaacademy.ca/trojanhorse/

📚 Book series link: https://www.bibliothekundgesellschaft.de

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Wonder what Kula is all about? Here's a good place to start. 👇

In an interview with EurekAlert, Kula Director @jmhuculak talks about what happens when libraries become spaces of collaboration, creativity, and shared inquiry — from reflecting about 'the university being an agreement the past has with the present', to building AI tools for research, to growing flax in a community garden and making paper. Kula is working on connecting the dots (and creating new ones).

Read the full interview ⬇️
https://www.eurekalert.org/news-releases/1108762

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Hello Fediverse! 👋

We are the Kula: Library Futures Academy, a transdisciplinary collider space and incubator at the University of Victoria Libraries.
We explore the changing nature of knowledge creation, preservation, and dissemination—asking what the "library of the future" truly looks like. 🔮

📍We acknowledge and respect the Lək̓ʷəŋən (Songhees and Xʷsepsəm/Esquimalt) Peoples on whose territory the University of Victoria stands, and the Lək̓ʷəŋən and W̱SÁNEĆ Peoples whose historical relationships with the land continue to this day.

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