Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh outreach librarian Tess Wilson takes the writerly reins this week with a thoughtful essay on librarians’ role in the civic tech movement:

Wilson writes that she really understood “the crux” of what, exactly, libraries have to do with this type of tech when leading a Civic Data Zine Camp alongside The Labs @ CLP last summer, where teens examined an issue by employing open data and civic information resources and turned those learnings into zines.

This smart thing: “When I talk about open data, I talk about opportunity and agency — the opportunity to investigate and the agency to disrupt. And this becomes especially vital when we consider who the public library serves.”

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