About Us & Contact
This site was originally established by Danielle Dennie, a science librarian now working at Concordia University in Montreal. She put this resource together to offer news, information, and resources to librarians who want to be active in political and social issues surrounding libraries and librarianship. In May 2006, the site was handed over to a new crew, spearheaded by Sabina Iseli-Otto. Since January 2008, Danielle is back to blogging again, and happy to be sharing this space with like minded librarians :
Jason Hammond is a public librarian in Saskatchewan. He graduated with his MLIS in 2006 from the University of Western Ontario. Prior to library school, he spent nine years in the non-profit literary arts sector in Western Canada. He served as a member of the Amnesty International Observer Team during the G8 Summit in Kananaskis, AB in 2002. His interests are public libraries, technology and community building. A classmate described Jason as the “only person dumb enough to want to work in public libraries and the only person smart enough to know what I mean by that.”
Sabina Iseli-Otto works in Vancouver for the Ministry of Education. She also obtained her MLIS from UWO in 2006. Her main concerns are with international trade issues, the commercialization and commodification of public space, and Craig Thompson not publishing enough graphic novels. She is also a bicycle mechanic.
David Jackson is a writer and musician who graduated with an MLIS from the University of Western Ontario in 2006. He is interested in the subtle commodification of information, creative appropriation, and access for all. He’s not sure what he wants but he knows how to get it. And he can read like a demon.
Paula Clark is interested in consumer health information and the social construction of health & medical knowledge. As a descendent of migratory Saskatchewanites, her family folklore maintains that Tommy Douglas once sat on her grandparent’s furniture.
Danielle Dennie is currently working as a science librarian at Concordia University.
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Please drop us a line if you want to introduce yourselves as regular readers or - of course - send us a gripping story from your library community. If you know of any important or interesting links or news relating to potical or social issues in librarianship, or relating to events that you may organizing, please write to us by commenting on this page or by e-mailing us at: info (at) librarianactivist (dot) org.