Progressive Librarians Guild
PROGRESSIVE
LIBRARIANS GUILD
radical views on library & info issues

Progressive Librarian | Issue #17

Summer 2000

 

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EDITORIAL

Core Wars
by John Buschman, page 1 [.pdf file]


ARTICLES

Returning a Stare: People's Struggles for Political and Social Inclusion
by Shiraz Durrani, page 3 [.pdf file]

The Unsustainable Library: Does the Internet Really Help Us in Africa?
by Colin Darch, page 35 [.pdf file]

The Internet and Social Activism: "Savage Inequalities" Revisited
by Dorothy A. Warner and John Buschman, page 44 [.pdf file]


FROM THE ALTERNATIVES LIBRARY

Patent Alternatives
by Lynn Andersen, page 54 [.pdf file]


HISTORICAL DOCUMENT

Radical Periodicals and their Place in the Library
by Henry Black, page 58 [.pdf file]


ADDED ENTRIES

Open the Doors: Ridgedale Library Grand Opening Poem, 10.10.99
by Chris Dodge and Solveig Nilsen, page 70 [.pdf file]

The Mystery and the Act: Towards a YA Human Sexuality Collection
by Teri Weesner, page 73 [.pdf file]


BOOK REVIEWS

Sorting Things Out: Classification and its Consequences, by Goeffrey C. Bowker and Susan Leigh Star
reviewed by Sanford Berman, page 77 [.pdf file]

Untold Stories: Civil Rights, Libraries, and Black Librarianship edited by John Mark Tucker
reviewed by Lorna Peterson, page 82 [.pdf file]