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Social media tools are used for different purposes among libraries and library professionals, with nearly all engaging in some form of social media. Some libraries have intricate policies that determine what is and is not posted on their institutional accounts and others do not know who all have the passwords. Some institutions post multiple times a day across multiple platforms, while others are constantly changing whose job it is to manage social media accounts. How libraries use social media is a broad topic that deserves, and has been receiving, nuanced research from many directions. This paper focuses on one aspect of social media use, namely, do library professionals post about outwardly political topics, events, laws, and policies on their institutional accounts? This paper attempts to uncover the experiences of library professionals related to politics and social media posting. This exploratory study, as so many exploratory studies do, creates as many questions for future research as it answers.

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