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The article features Mychal Threets, a librarian at Solano County Library in California and one of the honorees of the journal's Movers & Shakers 2024 Award. Topics discussed include his habit of sharing stories to inspire people to visit their library, his concern on the safety of library workers and of library users, and his effort to advocate for mental health in the workplace and promote programs like the Afro Library Revolution.

The article discusses the need of library leaders, staff, and boards to be prepared for attacks on readers' rights. Topics include a library's strongest and probably most-used defense when it comes to facing challenges, the need of library administrators to familiarize themselves with First Amendment legal decisions at the national and state level, and importance of freedom of information and library policy training for trustees.

The article discusses the efforts by libraries in the U.S. to support patrons and library staff who are experiencing mental health challenges. Topics covered include proportion of U.S. adults who live with a mental illness as of 2017 according to the National Institute of Mental Health, best practices for library staff on dealing with patrons with mental illness, and information on Mental Health First Aid (MHFA) training, a course developed by the National Council on Behavioral Health.

The author reflects on the search for a vaccine to control COVID-19, as of December 2020. She talks about the interim findings announced by Pfizer for its SARS-CoV-2 vaccine, the impact of library patrons' refusal to comply with safety regulations on library staff, and the challenge in conveying information to an audience of patrons who have been targeted with deliberate disinformation.

The article focuses on dealing with the different vernaculars spoken by library patrons and staff or linguistic diversity. Topics discussed include benefit of linguistic diversity, ways to incorporate racially different language into daily library functions, and significance of racial literacy and linguistic diversity to inclusive academic environment and meaningful information literacy.