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.
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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.
happy ala conference
Hope all of you at ALA are having a good time. Here is a sneak peek at my “talk” that I am giving in absentia at the Revolting Librarians panel today at ALA.
use windows, get hacked, ALA learns the hard way
In other computer glitch news, ALA was brought to its knees by the Korgo.L worm [not technically a virus], another Microsoft security exploit.
more on ALA + Walgreens
I have been writing some emails to the Council list about the new ALA parnership with Walgreens. Since I know there are many ALA members who do not navigate the complexities of the ALA web site just to read the Council list [though you can subscribe on a read-only basis] I figured I’d post my thoughts on the relationship here.