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"Libraries enjoy a unique place in the public imagination: they are perhaps the only publicly funded institution people actually like. Unlike the rest of twenty-first century America, the library does not seek to maximize profit or develop markets. The library is a non-coercive public space where books, movies, music-the stuff of ideas and of entertainment-are purchased with collective funds and then shared in kind among members of the community. Ideally-though not always in practice-it doesn't matter in a library who you are or where you come from. Once over the threshold, all are free and equal members of a human community, with free and equal access to the sum of human knowledge."
These sound like my kind of people:
"Librarians with a more far-reaching vision of professional activism find a home in the Progressive Librarians Guild (libr.org/plg). The PLG organizes librarians around broader issues of militarism, poverty, racism, and other progressive concerns. For radical librarians, the connections between the War on Terror, database contracts, and the right to free inquiry are easy to make. Perhaps our movement can be broadened through alliances with activists who share both vision and stakes with professional librarians, including teachers and others involved in the education professions."
"Librarians and the Patriot Act," by Emily Drabinski, in the "Radical Teacher" journal Sept. 2008
These sound like my kind of people:
"Librarians with a more far-reaching vision of professional activism find a home in the Progressive Librarians Guild (libr.org/plg). The PLG organizes librarians around broader issues of militarism, poverty, racism, and other progressive concerns. For radical librarians, the connections between the War on Terror, database contracts, and the right to free inquiry are easy to make. Perhaps our movement can be broadened through alliances with activists who share both vision and stakes with professional librarians, including teachers and others involved in the education professions."
"Librarians and the Patriot Act," by Emily Drabinski, in the "Radical Teacher" journal Sept. 2008