Title: Revolting librarians redux : radical librarians speak out /
Authors: Roberto, K. R. 1975-; West, Jessamyn, 1968-
Publisher: McFarland & Co.,
Year: 2003
Subjects: Library science Philosophy; Library education United States.; Libraries and society United States.; Library science Social aspects United States.; Library science Political aspects United States.; Librarians Professional ethics United States.; Radicalism United States.
Abstract: "This compilation on various aspects of alternative librarianship is a sequel to Revolting Librarians, which was published in 1972. The contributors cover topics that range from library education and librarianship as a profession to the more political and spiritual aspects of library life." "The contributions include critiques of library and information science programs, firsthand accounts of work experiences, and original fiction, poetry and art. Ten of the original librarians who wrote essays for Revolting Librarians back in 1972 reflect upon what they wrote thirty years ago and the turns that their lives and careers have taken since."--Jacket.
Contents: Don't blame us, or, we like you all in different ways / Katia Roberto and Jessamyn West -- Revolting librarians rides again / Celeste West -- Still revolting after all these years : words from the original revolters / Elizabeth Katz ... [et al.] -- Library school is revolting -- Getting the letters : library school redux / Moe Giust -- Accreditation : what's all the fuss? / A. Librarian -- Food for thought / Alison Bechdel -- Why Mo is going to library school / Alison Bechdel -- What I really learned in library school / Karen Elliott -- What library schools still aren't teaching us / Jess Nevins -- Sex, drugs, and will you please be quiet : our revolting jobs -- Labia lumps, chunky discharge, and other things I didn't learn in library school / Barbara Bourrier-Lacroix -- The other side of a balanced collection / W. Beauchamp -- Failures in neo-corporatism : a random walk through a university library / Tracy Brennan -- Taking a stand / Daniel C. Tsang --^ Are we so progressive? : the value of professional children's librarianship / Diana Brawley Sussman -- I was a teenage anarcho-terrorist / Piers Denton -- Creatively revolting self-expression -- The growing web of catastrophe : the story of a mad librarian / Keith Buckley -- Young Somali women in the library / Diana Brawley Sussman -- Personas non gratas, or, An archivist's classifcation of problem patrons / Katharine Salzmann -- Another day in the life of reference librarian / Cathy and Jennifer Camper -- Weather report : hale and drivel, or, Matt Hale visits my library -- Biblioloteca -- A librarian's suicide note / C.M. Stupegia -- Song of the reference librarian / Erica Olsen -- Our revolting issues -- Radicals defending tradition : an appeal to the baby boom generation / Rory Litwin -- Old maids and fairies : the image problem / Polly Thistlethwaite -- Library ethics and the problem with patriotism / Emily-Jane Dawson --^ In the stacks and in the sack : an undercover look at librarians and erotica / Cindy Indiana -- Librarians! into the workers' corner! / Bruce Jensen -- My life as a librarian exposed! : personal web sites and the librarian -- Stereotypes / Chris Zammarelli -- Revolting vocabulary : mental health and language in revolting librarians / Karen Antell -- Silencing Sandy : the censoring of library's foremost activist / Naomi Eichenlaub -- Libraries to the people, redux / Chris Dodge -- Libraries : it's a good thing / Jennifer Young -- Pioneering progressive library discourse / Toni Samek -- Check out those buns, or, What do you say to a male librarian? / Owen Massey -- Status quo revolution : language to silence dissent in librarianship / Taralee Alcock -- Day to revolting day : our stories -- What do radical librarians do? or, Which way to the black bloc? / Chuck Munson -- Maimonides in the stacks, or, Digitize this! / George Lederer -- Diary of a revolting librarian / Patricia Threatt --^ Library service to the insane / Cathy Camper -- The lost language of libraries / Pam North -- Damage noted : journal of a public librarian / Kate Pohjola -- High calling/low salary / Jenna Freedman -- Being a cataloger is better than gutting fish for a living because ... / Catherine Clements -- Unclassifable -- Astrology and library job correlation / Dean Hendrix and Michelle Wilde -- Why "Librarian : the musical" is doomed before it starts / David M. Pimentel -- Hey, book wranglers! / Cathy Camper -- Stuck between a rock and another rock : job title worries / Dan Cherubin) -- A bit more than a year of library reading : a revolting bibliography / Jessamyn West.