Revolting librarians redux : radical librarians speak out / edited by Katia Roberto and Jessamyn West ; introduction by Celeste West ; illustrations by Katherine West.

"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."...

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Other Authors: Roberto, K. R. 1975-, West, Jessamyn, 1968-
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Jefferson, N.C. : McFarland & Co., [2003]
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Table of 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 [and others]
  • 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 classification 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.