Progressive Librarians Guild
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Progressive Librarian | Issue #18

Summer 2001

 

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ARTICLES

A Political Economy of Librarianship?
by William F. Birdsall, page 1 [.pdf file]

Intellectual Property: A Historical Perspective on the Commodification of Information
by Darcy Sharman, page 9 [.pdf file]

Reading in the Age of Global Media
by Mark Crispin Miller, page 18 [.pdf file]

Response to Mark Crispin Miller
by John Buschman, page 24 [.pdf file]

The WTO and the Threat to Libraries
by Fiona Hunt, page 29 [.pdf file]

Potential Unexploited: Public Libraries and Adult Literacy
by Jennifer Cram, page 40 [.pdf file]

"Inside" Censorship
by Sanford Berman, page 48 [.pdf file]


FROM THE ALTERNATIVES LIBRARY

Taking it to the Streets
by Lynn Andersen, page 64 [.pdf file]


DOCUMENTS

Report on the 66th IFLA General Conference, Jerusalem, 13-18 August 2000
by Al Kagan, page 67 [.pdf file]

Circle of Studies about Political Librarianship - Mexico
page 70 [.pdf file]

Program for International Progressive Librarianship
by Mark Rosenzweig, page 71 [.pdf file]

LINK: A Network for North-South Library Development
page 72 [.pdf file]

Recommendations for Action in Implementing ALA's "Library Services for the Poor" Resolution
page 74 [.pdf file]


BOOK REVIEWS

The Dismissal of Ruth Brown: Civil Rights, Censorship and the American Library, by Louise S. Robbins
reviewed by Zoia Horn, page 77 [.pdf file]


Notes on Contributors
pages 73-80 [.pdf file]