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OVERDUE - Essays on Libraries, Information, and Access
OVERDUE is a collection of twelve essays documenting my exploration of modern librarianship. Originally published as a weekly LinkedIn series, these essays reflect my growing understanding of the profession and the systems, values, and people that make libraries indispensable to their communities. Read individually, each essay examines a different aspect of librarianship. Read together, they reveal the thoughtful framework that quietly connects people with the information they need.
OVERDUE #1: Introduction
Originally published on April 28, 2026
Why a career spent organizing enterprise content led to an unexpected question about libraries, and the realization that a next chapter might have been waiting all along.
OVERDUE #2: Myth Busting
Originally published on May 5, 2026
Three misconceptions about libraries, from the royal collections of the 7th century BCE to the industries where MLIS graduates actually work today.
OVERDUE #3:
Information Architecture
Originally published on May 12, 2026
A library is not a storage system, it is a retrieval system. How catalogs, metadata, and shelving are all information architecture in practice.
OVERDUE #4:
Community Infrastructure
Originally published on May 19, 2026
What recent librarian job descriptions reveal about the modern role, and why the language of those postings sounds more like civic infrastructure than education.
OVERDUE #5:
Information Literacy
Originally published on May 26, 2026
In an age where platforms and algorithms compete to interpret information, librarians do more than locate it. They teach people how to evaluate it.
OVERDUE #6: Access
Originally published on June 2, 2026
Four kinds of access libraries provide, covering information, technology, expertise, and language, and the specific barrier each one removes.
OVERDUE #7: Trust
Originally published on June 9, 2026
How libraries became among the most trusted public institutions, built not through grand gestures but through countless small interactions over generations.
OVERDUE #8:
Intellectual Freedom
Originally published on June 16, 2026
The profession's least visible commitment, protecting a patron's right to ask questions without someone else deciding which questions are acceptable.
OVERDUE #9: Collections
Originally published on June 23, 2026
Library collections are managed, not accumulated. Inside the six-stage cycle that puts every item on the shelf and eventually takes some back off.
OVERDUE #10: Expertise
Originally published on June 30, 2026
What librarians actually do all day, and why the reference interview is where their understanding of people, information, and systems comes together.
OVERDUE #11: Adaptation
Originally published on July 7, 2026
Whether libraries are still relevant is the wrong question. The better one is how they have stayed relevant while their mission never changed.
OVERDUE #12: Answers
Originally published on July 14, 2026
The finale. Every principle in the series turns out to be part of a single framework, one that stays invisible so the answers do not have to.
