Sentence examples for library activist from inspiring English sources

In 2013, Peter MacPherson, a D.C. parent and library activist, threatened to protest at the ribbon-cutting for the new Dunbar High School.

"I didn't do this as a library activist, but if there is a call to action, then it would be to really see buildings as history and information and, in the case of the libraries, an incredible sediment of information".

I met people like Akram, who operates a "gay-video library". Activist Frank Mugisha, who appeared dressed in a sailor's costume with a rainbow sash and called himself Captain Pride, told me, "I just wish I had a switch to turn on that would make everyone who's gay say they are gay.

There are a lot of brilliant library activists out there who have been inspirational for us.

Library activists are scrappers and they are getting more and more proficient and creative all the time.

In doing so, they became the curators of a global library of activist strategies.

Frazier's public history work incorporated oral history at its center including: interviews for Anacostia's Black Mosaic Project, WRHS's black veteran project, King Archives and Library civil rights activist programs, and community training sessions in oral history.

Yet hundreds gathered outside the city library on March 19 anyway, activists said, and the police dispersed the crowd within an hour.

As the school progresses toward a library opening in 2020, activists and students are continuing to push for a commitment to the trauma center – or at least more answers from Zimmer, the school president who has carefully avoided public confrontations about the trauma center despite a surging grassroots movement.

The open-access movement launched about a decade ago as the high cost of academic journals spurred libraries, scientists, and activists to search for ways to upend the 200-year-old stranglehold on scientific information enjoyed by academic publishers.

2009, when he jumped from the tenth floor of Bobst, NYU's main library, I have become an activist in the area of Suicide & Mental, Emotional Wellness.