Progressive Librarians Guild
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Progressive Librarian | Issue #47

Winter 2019/2020

 

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EDITORIAL

Editorial
by Elaine Harger; page 3 [.pdf file]


ARTICLES

Emerging Anxieties: Librarianship and Material Transformations in the Age of New Technology
by Carolin Huang, page 8 [.pdf file]

Does Hate Literature Belong in the American Library?
by Alastair McPherson, page 18 [.pdf file]

A Crime to Not Be Counted: An Examination & Exploration of the U.S. Department of Justice’s Data Collection Programs
by Dana Lachenmayer, page 31 [.pdf file]

Equal Access as Social Equity: A Literature Review of Programming and Services in Public Libraries
by Lily Rose Kosmicki, page 51 [.pdf file]

Strange Career: Reconciling Race and Profession in American Librarianship
by Steven Harris, page 81 [.pdf file]


BRAVERMAN ESSAY 2018

Libraries, Power, and Justice: Toward a Sociohistorically Informed Intellectual Freedom
by Alessandra Seiter, page 107 [.pdf file]


BRAVERMAN ESSAY 2019

Towards Universal Access to Knowledge: The Invisible Labor of Digitizing
by Yoonhee Lee, page 118 [.pdf file]


BOOK REVIEW

Which Side Are You On?: Seven Social Responsibility Debates in American Librarianship, 1990-2015
Reviewed by Babak Zarin, page 128 [.pdf file]


INTERVIEW

Connecting for International Librarianship: A Conversation with Shiraz Durrani
Questions from Julian Jaravata, page 131 [.pdf file]


DOCUMENTS

Sticking with the Union After Janus: Union Library Workers 2017-2018
Report by Kathleen de la Peña McCook and Elaine Harger, page 139 [.pdf file]

Resolution to Honor African Americans Who Fought Library Segregation, page 163 [.pdf file]

Progressive Librarians Guild Statement on Racist Incident at ALA Midwinter and Call for Critical Inquiry into Institutional Practices that Reproduce Forms of Oppression, page 168 [.pdf file]