Radical Militant Librarians: Then & Now Rutgers Colloquium September 2006 Jenna Freedman [email protected]

Radical Militant Librarians: Then & Now

Rutgers ColloquiumSeptember 2006Jenna Freedman

[email protected] http://radicalreference.info/jenna/rutgers0609

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http://radicalreference.info/jenna/rutgers0609

who are these dangerous people?

• ALA• Discussion lists/websites• library2.0ers• Multicultural groups• "outsider" librarians• PLG• Radical Reference• SRRT• Unaffiliated individuals• Union members

http://www.ala.org/

http://libr.org/PLG

http://radicalreference.info/

http://libr.org/SRRT

ALA

• Not actually so radical, but some divisions and roundtables have their moments– GODORT (Government Documents Round Table)– OITP (Office for Information Technology Policy)– SRRT (more on that later)

• Did score points with the PATRIOT Act• Take care of the mainstream stuff, so others can

be radical• Generational issues

http://www.ala.org/

http://www.ala.org/ala/godort/godort.htm

http://www.ala.org/ala/washoff/oitp/oitpofficeinformation.htm


http://www.ala.org/ala/oif/ifissues/usapatriotact.htm

discussion lists/websites

• Anarchist Librarians

• Librarian Activist

• Librarians against Bush

• Library Juice

• Weapons of Mass Instruction

• What else? Online communities like tribe.net, the other LJ (LiveJournal), etc.?

http://www.infoshop.org/alibrarians/public_html/

http://www.librarianactivist.org/

http://www.librariansagainstbush.org/

http://libraryjuicepress.com/blog/

http://lists.riseup.net/www/info/womi

http://search.tribe.net/?types=tribe&query=librarians&page-size=10

http://www.livejournal.com/interests.bml?int=librarians

library 2.0

• Community

• Overthrowing the OPAC, rather than the government, or even the vendor

• NexGen

http://librarianinblack.typepad.com/librarianinblack/2005/12/library_20_disc.html

http://scruffynerf.wordpress.com/2006/07/05/opac-blog-posts-a-list/

http://groups.google.com/group/NEXGENLIB

multicultural groups

• American Indian Library Association • Asian/Pacific American Librarians Association• Black Caucus of ALA • Ethnic and Multicultural Information Exchange

Round Table• Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, and Transgendered

Round Table • REFORMA The National Association to Promote

Library and Information Services to Latinos and the Spanish Speaking

"outsider" librarians

• Alternative Press Center

• Books to Prisoners and Prison Libraries groups

• Prelinger Library

• Zine librarians– Bottles on the Sill– Queer Zine Archive Project– Zine Archive & Publishing Project

http://altpress.org/

http://www.prisonlegalnews.org/links/books_to_prisoners.htm

http://prisonreader.org/

http://prisonreader.org/

http://prelingerlibrary.org/

http://groups.yahoo.com/group/zinelibrarians/

http://www.geocities.com/bottlesonthesill/about.html

http://qzap.org/

http://www.hugohouse.org/programs/zine.html

PLG

• Journal

• Statements

• Student groups– Simmons– St. Kate's

http://libr.org/PLG

http://libr.org/pl/

http://gslisskillshare.pbwiki.com/

radical reference

• online• in the street• educating• local collectives• international participation• free/open source software

– Drupal– LightningBug

http://radicalreference.info/

http://radicalreference.info/search/node/ready+reference+kit

http://radicalreference.info/search/node/grassroots

http://radicalreference.info/localcollectives

http://drupal.org/

http://lightningbug.sourceforge.net/

SRRT

• Works within ALA

• Protests against ALA, serves as its conscience

• Task forces


http://libr.org/srrt/#taskforce

unaffiliated

• Signs at Santa Cruz PL

• Bloggers like Jessamyn West

• Grinnell library assistant Christine Gaunt

• Chuck Munson and Infoshop.org

• Sandy Berman

• ???

http://www.santacruzpl.org/libraryadmin/ljpb/usapatmsg.shtml

http://www.librarian.net/

http://www.soaw.org/new/newswire_detail.php?id=1040

http://infoshop.org/

http://sanfordberman.org/

union members

• Stands for themselves

• Stands on issues