This week’s Library Juice has some good ALA wrap-up including Councilor James Casey’s report and an English translation of a paper giving some analysis of the Cuban library situation w/r/t the independent librarians.
Author: jessamyn
Anarchist in the Library Conference by Chuck0
Chuck has posted some of his impressions of the ALA Conference
Radical librarians continue to make waves within the library profession and libraries and the library profession are becoming increasingly politicized in the direct of radical ideas and values. There is tremendous potential for the development of an anarchist library workers tendency and movement within ALA and the rest of the profession.
PATRIOT Watch: bordc sez call your rep
Anti-USA PATRIOT Act activities are still going strong. If you’re the call-your-representative type, today is a good day to do it and tell them to support the Sanders-Paul-Conyers-Otter-Nadler Amendment to the Commerce, Justice, State and Judiciary Appropriations Bill of 2005.
IIII = 4 = IV
“Illiterate clock” in library has IIII instead of IV. Librarian has minor freakout, gets schooled on roman numerals by clock manufacturer. [thanks steven]
Providence Library Defense
Also from the Juice, and many other places, the Providence Public Library workers who are incensed over staff layoffs and administrator pay raises now have a snappy website and URL.