These accounts and reprinted articles can befound today in many public libraries. A Directory of Resources and Sources on the Vietnam Era Underground Press , which supplements the volume of Insider Histories . Anne and Cathy are both members of the American Library Association's Alternatives in Print Task Force. Anne is a past chair. A Guide to Directories, Indexes, Bibliographies and Other Sources .
Librarians are the original packrats, and the Vietnam era was a packrat librarian's dream period.
Collectible materials that originated then, in the form not only of books and underground newspapers but also bumperstickers, buttons, flyers, posters, films, and other vehicles of communication, as well as boxes and files of unpublished notes, were as colorful, inspiring, and intellectually stimulating as any our country's brief history has created. Always there to gather it up for posterity as it was being created and discarded were librarians, both vocational and avocational. Today, libraries with these special collections are scattered throughout the world. There is a good chance one is located not far from your own home. Ellen is curator of the Alternative Press Collection at Homer Babbidge Library at the University of Connecticut.