Radical Militant Librarians: Then

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Radical Militant Librarians Then Now

• Rutgers Colloquium
• September 2006
• Jenna Freedman
• jenna_at_stealthisemail.com
• http//radicalreference.info/jenna/rutgers0609

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who are these dangerous people?

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

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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

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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.?

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library 2.0

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

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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

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"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

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PLG

• Journal
• Statements
• Student groups
• Simmons
• St. Kate's

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radical reference

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

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SRRT

• Works within ALA
• Protests against ALA, serves as its conscience
• Task forces

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unaffiliated

• Signs at Santa Cruz PL
• Bloggers like Jessamyn West
• Grinnell library assistant Christine Gaunt
• Chuck Munson and Infoshop.org
• Sandy Berman
• ???

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union members

• Stands for themselves
• Stands on issues