Venezuela’s National Library director declares war on the Library of Congress.

While I don’t disagree with the accusation that the LOC is “sowing cultural imperialism throughout the world” (the biases codified in LOC subject headings, for example, are consistently criticized by many progressive LIS scholars), I am concerned with this move, as the article points out, in relation to the independent libraries movement in Cuba. In working with the Cuban government, Chavez and Baez could effectively kill a movement there that has already lost a great number of ambitious and heroic people.