Information for Social Change

Former ISC Editorial Board Members

Kingsley Oghojafor

Kingsley Oghojafor, a graduate of mass communication, lives in Nigeria. Kingsley is a freelance writer and an author who has written several articles and books including topics such as self-publishing, regional issues and IT. He can be reached at kingsleyoghojafortrustyahoo.co.uk

Lacey Prpić Hedtke

Lacey Prpić Hedtke is a radical librarian, zinester and antiquarian photographer. She holds a BFA in photography from the Art Institute of Boston in Boston, Massachusetts and an MLIS from St. Catherine University in Saint Paul, Minnesota. Her path from photography through librarianship led her to her current position in the grants department at Planned Parenthood Minnesota, North Dakota, South Dakota and as a Sex Educator at The Smitten Kitten, a progressive feminist sex toy shop in Minneapolis, Minnesota.

She's contributed book and zine reviews to Library Journal, ARLIS/NA Reviews, and LIBREAS Library Ideas. Lacey is a founder, editor and writer for LIBREAS Library Ideas journal, based in Berlin, Germany. She contributed essays and created the events calendar for Art Review and Preview! Newspaper, an art newspaper in Minneapolis, Minnesota. She is a weekly contributor to l'etoile Magazine and was a web editor for Not For Tourists in 2005. Her blog is Now That We're Being Honest...

Lacey has a strong interest in independent publishing, and has self-published seven zines (small-run handmade artist books): Likes/Dislikes (2005) Very True (2005), Etiquette (2006), Cereal Boxes and Milk Crates: Zine LIbraries and Infoshops are...NOW! (2007), Likes/Dislikes 2 (2008), Toxic (2008) and Excitement and Adventure (2009). She has visited zine libraries in North America and Europe, and is thrilled that these usually collectively-run spaces continue to thrive.
In 2008, Lacey traveled to her homeland of Croatia to present Cereal Boxes and Milk Crates in poster form at the BOBCATSSS Symposium.

For three years, Lacey was a collective member of the Belfry Center for Social and Cultural Activities, a collectively run community space where she curated art shows, coordinated music shows, and spent most of her time organizing, cataloging and building the Bat Annex Free School's lending zine library, which was housed in the Belfry. She has contributed her librarian skills to the Stevens Square Center for the Arts zine library, and has given talks and been a visiting artist focusing on zine making and librarianship at St. Catherine University, the University of Minnesota in Minneapolis, Minnesota, and the Minnesota Center for Book Arts in Minneapolis, Minnesota. She has participated in zine fests across the Midwest, and has been a Twin Cities Zinefest co-organizer for several years.

In response to the 2008 Republican National Convention in her city of Saint Paul, Minnesota, she co-founded the Twin Cities Radical Reference Collective. She is also a Miriam Braverman Memorial Prize Selection Committee Member for the Progressive Librarians Guild and is interested in all forms of radical and progressive librarianship and activism.

She continues to work in Civil War-era photography processes, and teaches them at the Minneapolis Photo Center. She also plays the concertina in a cute-core band called Bla Bla Blacksheep. She spent two years learning mediumship at The Greater Boston Church of Spiritualism in Watertown, Massachusetts. Lacey lives in Minneapolis with her dog and many instruments. She is constantly researching something esoteric and of questionable relevance to her life, and is always learning.

Edgardo Civallero

Started working in LIS social issues in 2001, developing libraries in indigenous and rural communities in northern Argentina. He became involved with the IFLA and UDC editorial board, and with Open Access Initiatives in Latin America, and with several LIS Journals' editorial boards. Edgardo maintains a weblog [http://www.bitacoradeunbibliotecario.blogspot.com/ bitacora de un bibliotecario], with an English version named http://www.thelogofalibrarian.blogspot.com The log of a librarian. Edgardo also gives classes, conferences and workshops on LIS social activism and the social role of librarians.

Helen Raduntz

Helen Raduntz is an Adjunct Research Fellow with the Centre of Research in Education, Equity and Work, University of South Australia, whose career has involved working in industry and secondary education, education union activism, and academic teaching and research. Subsequent to her doctoral research she has continued her interests in the development of a Marxian critique for contemporary capitalism, in the continuing impact of marketisation on education and education for social change, and in mounting a critique on the subject of intellectual property and the work of information professionals. Among her publications is a chapter entitled ‘The Marketisation of Education within the Global Capitalist Economy’ published in 2005 in the book Globalising Public Education: Policies, Pedagogy and Politics, edited by Michael W. Apple, Jane Kenway and Michael Singh, and published by Peter Lang Publishing, New York.

Shiraz Durrani

K. R. Roberto

Rory Litwin

Gill Harris (UK) - LINK

Chris Atton