NP radical librarians

[Doug Millison]

Some of you will enjoy this, I expec (the blurb's from  Utne Web 
Watch Daily, Ex Libris is "an E-zine for librarians and information 
junkies"):

SHAKING THINGS UP: PROGRESSIVE AND RADICAL LIBRARIANS
by Marylaine Block, Ex Libris
-- Marylaine Block, a librarian from Davenport Iowa, dispels the myth that
all bookies are stodgy. To illustrate the point, she interviews the
self-proclaimed anarchist librarian Jessamyn West.
http://marylaine.com/exlibris/xlib77.html

excerpt:

"I became a librarian because I believed information should be free 
and I felt I was good at tracking it down. It was more of a calling 
than a choice. It wasn't until I took my first intellectual freedom 
class in library school [um, now the School of Information 
somethingorother] that I realized there was a place for me and my 
freaky politics within the profession, and not a small one either.

"In many ways, you have to be some sort of a radical to be a 
librarian. Start out super-smart, get a lot of education, then devote 
yourself to a low- to middle-paying social service job where even 
your friends make jokes about your co-workers -- if not you directly 
-- and think you can be replaced by a computer. It's no wonder a lot 
of us have something to say on the matter. "
-- 
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