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This site was established by Danielle Dennie, a science librarian at the Université du Québec à Montréal. 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.
It was handed over to a new group in May 2006. Here are our brief bios.
Jason Hammond is an MLIS student at the University of Western Ontario. He has spent the last 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.”
David Jackson is a writer and musician who recently graduated from the UWO MLIS program. He’s 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.
Sabina Iseli-Otto is another MLIS student at UWO. Her main concerns are with international trade issues, the commercialization and commodification of public space, and Craig Thompson not publishing enough graphic novels. The bright passion for libraries glows so brightly in her eyes that she is universally exempt from paying library fines. She’s wanted to be a librarian since she was 12, though she took a hiatus to be a both a science student and a bicycle mechanic. Tonight, she cut her thumb while slicing up rhubarb to make pie.
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.
The site's main e-mail account will continue to be:
info@librarianactivist.org
You can get in touch with any of us through there.
Again: we hope we inform your socks off.
Thanks and cheers!
J,D,S
