Advocacy
Library Futures tackles current and emerging issues in the digital library world. From offering clear policy solutions to creating and advocating standards for library digital ownership to demanding accountability from library vendors, we work to create an equitable technology-forward future.
Selected work
Policy Solutions
- May 2025 — Connecticut Passes Landmark Ebook Bill Based on Our Model Legislation
- Mar 2025 — The Blue Skies Statement: An Equitable Policy Vision for Libraries
- Jan 2024 — Amici Filed in Two Key Cases
- Feb 2023 — Library Futures Ebook Bills Are on the Move
- Jun 2022 — Policy Statement and Draft Ebook Legislative Language
Digital Ownership Standards
- Feb 2025 — Call for Interoperable Ebook Etandards
- Jun 2024 — Principles on Library Ownership of Digital Books
- Feb 2023 — Digital Ownership for Libraries and the Public
- Aug 2021 — Controlled Digital Lending: Unlocking the Library’s Full Potential
- May 2021 — Content at Any Cost?
Vendor Accountability
- Sep 2024 — How Much Does Obama’s Summer Reading List Cost Your Library?
- Aug 2024 — Hoopla’s Content Problem
- Mar 2024 — The Publisher Playbook: A Timeline
- Sep 2022 — Library Futures and SPARC Condemn Wiley E-Textbook Withdrawal
- Dec 2021 — What the Penguin Random House/Simon & Schuster Merger Means for Libraries
Censorship and Intellectual Freedom
- Sep 2025 — Tracking Digital Densorship
- Mar 2025 — Unpacking Digital Censorship in Schools and Libraries
- Feb 2025 — Neo-Censorship in U.S. Libraries
- Aug 2023 — The Kids Online Safety Act Denies Young People’s Freedoms of Expression and Privacy
- Oct 2021 — Eight Ways to Ban a Book
Local News and Digital Access
- Sep 2025 — Visions for Library-Newsroom Collaboration
- Sep 2023 — Link Taxes Tax Library Values
- Aug 2023 — Mapping the Bronx: Where Digital Redlining Denies Access
- Aug 2022 — Improving Digital Access to Local News
- Feb 2022 — First Insights: Albany Public Library News Access Pilot
Special Advocacy Projects
- Aug 2025 — Fight for Your Right to Digitize With New Zine
- Jun 2025 — Controlled Chaos: Where the Wild Things Read
- Feb 2024 — Introducing E-Books for Us
- Dec 2023 — Libraries, You Got Rights!
Introducing E-Books for Us!
Introducing E-Books for Us, an engaging, simple, and informative website with interactive games and quizzes to highlight critical e-book issues.
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Library Futures Files Amici in Two Key Cases
Library Futures files amici in Supreme Court case Netchoice and CCIA v Paxton/Moody and Second Circuit Court of Appeals Case Hachette v Internet Archive.
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Fighting for the Right to Internet: Amicus Brief in Sony v. Cox
How a court case could break internet access for those who need it most.
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How Much Does Obama's Summer Reading List Cost Your Library?
We took a concrete look at just how much a popular book list costs a library.
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Launching the eBook Pledge to Make eBook Markets Sustainable for the Long Term
The systematic undermining of user rights and permissions in the digital realm is a threat to libraries, authors, and cultural institutions, and we must address this encroachment as a community.
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Call for Interoperable Ebook Standards in the Academic Ebook Market
We welcome signatories from academic institutions to a new Interoperable Ebooks Standards Statement
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Protect Library Workers from the CASE Act
The CASE Act will harm library workers and make distributing library materials difficult under the guise of "protecting creators".
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Library Futures Files Collaborative Amici in American Society for Testing and Materials, et al. v. Public.Resource.Org
Library Futures is excited to announce that we have filed a collaborative amici brief—joined by EveryLibrary Institute, Authors Alliance, and Public Knowledge—in American Society for Testing and Materials, et al. v. Public.Resource.Org.
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Library Futures Releases Policy Statement and Draft eBook Legislative Language: Mitigating the Library eBook Conundrum Through Legislative Action in the States
Librarians in many states are seeking to develop eBook laws that address these concerns of cost and restrictive licensing terms. Our policy statement and model language are here to help.
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Introducing Principles on Library Ownership of Digital Books
Library ownership is key to an equitable digital future. These principles guide the way.
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Hoopla's Content Problem: Strange, Skewed Results Still Dominate Catalog
Hoopla, what is all that... junk in your catalog?
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