I believe the single most important attribute of humanity is our free will.  Free will is the source of our rights and also our responsibilities.  If individuals are to fulfill the potential free will offers, they must have adequate knowledge of the many environments in which their will acts and is acted upon; if individuals are responsible for their actions, they must have an adequate understanding of how their actions affect the world around them.

To create meaning from freedom, then, one's decisions need to be fully informed.  Currently, I believe Libraries are the best means for achieving the egalitarian access to information that people need in order to exercise their will.  Thus, as a librarian, I aid the quest for meaning of myself and the rest of humanity by preserving and ordering knowledge in a place open to all.
 

Links
 

• Anarchist Librarians Web

 
• Rudolf Rocker: Anarchist Librarian

• Spunk Library : An Online Archive of Anarchist and Alternative Materials
  
  
• Paul Goodman: "Reflections on Drawing the Line" (.pdf)

• Erich Muhsam Memorial

Text reads:  "Illiteracy blinds the spirit. Study, soldier."  This is a reproduction of an anti-illiteracy poster produced by the CNT during the Spanish Civil War, 1936-1939.  As the country's largest labor union, the anarcho-syndicalist CNT played a prominent role in the struggle against the fascists.

"BEYOND  UTOPIA  LIES  ANARCHISM" (slogan of the anarchist librarians. click here for more information.)