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Progressive Librarians Guild
Rider University Library
2083 Lawrenceville Rd.
Lawrenceville, NJ 08648

News and Updates

6/22/08   Read Peter McDonald's  "ALA´s Stand on Cuba´s  Independent Libraries," American Libraries 39 no. 6 (June/July 2008):100-2.

6/22/08   PLG activities in Anaheim, CA.

6/20/08 −  Progressive Librarians Guild Statement on WiFi in Libraries and the Precautionary Principle.

5/29/08 −  PLG is now a coalition partner with openthegovernment.org, a coalition of "journalists, consumer and good government groups, environmentalists, library groups, labor, and others."

5/12/08 −  PLG welcomes Dalhousie University PLG Chapter, the first PLG student chapter in Canada at the School of Information Management (SIM), Dalhousie University, Halifax, Nova Scotia.

5/7/08  −  Braverman Award Winner Announced.

4/20/08 Read Elaine Harger's article from American Libraries "Global Warming and Us: Assessing Our Environmental and Professional Liability," April 1, 2008.

4/14/08 John Buschman at the annual British Columbia Library Conference April 17-19, 2008, "Slip Sliding Away: Libraries 'Cool' Rebranding, and Public Purposes."

4/14/08 − New book from Library Juice Press edited by Alison Lewis Ph.D.  Questioning Library Neutrality: Essays from Progressive Librarian.

3/4/2008 − PLG welcomes its student chapter at the University of Arizona.

9/1/2007 − The Progressive Librarians Guild endorsed the Iraq Moratorium, an organized method of protest for the third Friday of each month.

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