“Checking Out: Support the Librarians in their Demand for Better Labor Conditions” UCSD Guardian (2018)

The Geisel Library at UCSD at night. A lighting bolt breaks in the sky just above it, giving the image a purplish hue.

In his 2018 Opinion essay for the UCSD Guardian about UC Librarian’s Contract campaign, Christopher Robertson wrote, “Few will leave UC San Diego without taking advantage of its library resources at some point in their studies here, be it for a student’s report or a professor’s research. Geisel Library’s 7 million texts and innumerable digitized additions lay so easily within reach that it is easy to forget the librarians who spent hours cataloging all those entries. UCSD librarians are members of the American Federation of Teachers, another union in the middle of contract negotiations with the notoriously miserly UC system.” Read more at the UCSD Guardian.