Progressive Librarian Issue no. 18, Summer, 2001

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ARTICLES

A Political Economy of Librarianship? by William F. Birdsall, page 1

Intellectual Property: A Historical Perspective on the Commodification of Information, by Darcy Sharman, page 9

Reading in the Age of Global Media, by Mark Crispin Miller, page 18

Response to Miller, by John Buschman, page 24

The WTO and the Threat to Libraries, by Fiona Hunt, page 29

Potential Unexploited: Public Libraries and Adult Literacy, by Jennifer Cram, page 40

"Inside" Censorship, by Sanford Berman, page 48


FROM THE ALTERNATIVES LIBRARY

Taking it to the Streets, by Lynn Andersen, page 64


DOCUMENTS

Report on the 66th IFLA General Conference, Jerusalem, 13-18 August 2000, by Al Kagan, page 67

Circle of Studies about Political Librarianship - Mexico, page 70

Program for International Progressive Librarianship, by Mark Rosenzweig, page 71

LINK: Network for North-South Library Development, page 72

Recommendations for Action in Implementing ALA's "Library Services for the Poor" Resolution, page 74


BOOK REVIEWS

The Dismissal of Ruth Brown: Civil Rights, Censorship and the American Library, Louise Robbins. Reviewed by Zoia Horn, page 78


NOTES ON CONTRIBUTORS,
page 73


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