Revolting Librarians Redux
McFarland & Co Inc (Verlag)
978-0-7864-1608-0 (ISBN)
"Revolting librarians aren't defined by what they are, they are defined by what they do. In fact, it's not even what they do, but how they do it"--Katia Roberto and Jessamyn West, in the Preface.
This compilation of witty, insightful, and readable writings on the various aspects of alternative librarianship edited by two outspoken library professionals is a sequel to Revolting Librarians, which was published in 1972. The contributors, including Alison Bechdel, Sanford Berman, and Utne Reader librarian Chris Dodge, cover topics that range from library education and librarianship as a profession to the more political and spiritual aspects of librarianship. 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.
K.R. Roberto is the Head of Monographs Original Cataloging at the University of Georgia. Jessamyn West is a community technology librarian and a moderator of the massive group blog MetaFilter.com. She lives in a rural area of Central Vermont where she teaches basic computer skills.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Acknowledgments
Preface
Introduction
I. Still Revolting After All These Years: Words from the Original Revolters
Elizabeth Katz
Marilyn Gell Mason
Art Plotnik
Sanford Berman
Jana Varlejs
Judy Hadley
Elspeth Pope
Reva Basch
Noel Peattie
Paul Axel-Lute
II. Library School Is Revolting
Getting the Letters: Library School Redux
Accreditation: What’s All the Fuss?
Dykes to Watch Out For: Food for Thought
Why Mo Is Going to Library School
What I Really Learned in Library School
What Library Schools Still Aren't Teaching Us
III. Sex, Drugs, and Will You Please Be Quiet—Our Revolting Jobs
Labia Lumps, Chunky Discharge, and Other Things They Never Taught Me in Library School
The Other Side of a Balanced Collection
Failures in Neo-Corporatism: A Random Walk through a University Library
Taking a Stand
Are We So Progressive? The Value of Professional Children’s Librarianship
I Was a Teenage Anarcho-Terrorist
IV. Creatively Revolting Self-Expression
The Growing Web of Catastrophe: The Story of a Mad Librarian
Young Somali Women in the Library
Personas Non Gratas; or, An Archivist's Classification of Problem Patrons
Another Day in the Life of… Reference Librarian
Weather Report: Hale and Drivel (or Matt Hale Visits My Library)
A Librarian's Suicide Note
Song of the Reference Librarian
V. Our Revolting Issues
Radicals Defending Tradition: An Appeal to the Baby Boom Generation
Old Maids and Fairies: The Image Problem
Library Ethics and the Problem with Patriotism
In the Stacks and in the Sack: An Undercover Look at Librarians and Erotica
Librarians! Into the Workers’ Corner!
My Life as a Librarian Exposed! Personal Websites and the Librarian Stereotypes
Revolting Vocabulary: Mental Health and Language in Revolting Librarians
Silencing Sandy: The Censoring of Libraries' Foremost Activist
Libraries to the People, Redux
Libraries—It’s a Good Thing
Pioneering Progressive Library Discourse
“Check Out Those Buns”; or, What Do You Say to a Male Librarian?
Status Quo/Revolution: Language to Silence Dissent in Librarianship
VI. Day to Revolting Day: Our Stories
What Do Radical Librarians Do? or, Which Way to the Black Bloc?
Maimonides in the Stacks; or, Digitize This!
Diary of a Revolting Librarian
Library Service to the Insane
The Lost Language of Libraries
Damage Noted: Journal of a Public Librarian
High Calling/Low Salary
“Being a Cataloger Is Better Than Gutting Fish for a Living Because…”
VII. Unclassifiable
Astrology and Library Job Correlation
Why Librarian: The Musical Is Doomed Before It Starts
Stuck Between a Rock and Another Rock: Job Title Worries
Hey, Book Wranglers!
A Bit More Than a Year of Library Reading: A Revolting Bibliography
See Also: A Collection from Our Contributors
About the Contributors
Index
| Erscheint lt. Verlag | 31.5.2003 |
|---|---|
| Zusatzinfo | photos, notes, index |
| Verlagsort | Jefferson, NC |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 178 x 254 mm |
| Gewicht | 399 g |
| Themenwelt | Sozialwissenschaften ► Kommunikation / Medien ► Buchhandel / Bibliothekswesen |
| ISBN-10 | 0-7864-1608-4 / 0786416084 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-0-7864-1608-0 / 9780786416080 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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