From the PLG listserv.

The Progressive Librarians Guild stands in solidarity with the striking Vancouver Public Library workers of the Canadian Union of Public Employees (CUPE) 391 as they fight for a fair and equitable contract that addresses pay equity, improvements to employee benefits, access to training, fair treatment of part-time and auxiliary library […]

Here’s a trackback to a great post from Anthony Pash, Acadian University librarian at the Critical Librarian blog.

Asking questions about power.

Title of the post speaks for itself … check it out.

-PC-

Your chance to present at a conference with Drs. Toni Samek and Hope Olson! Or you can just attend the conference, too… no pressure. Please note that abstracts are due Oct. 15, 2007.

Courtesy of Dr. Elizabeth Buchanan, director of the Center for Information Policy Research, via James Pekoll.

-SIO

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May 15-17, 2008
University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, Milwaukee, […]

To add on to Sabina’s earlier post … now that Siobhan Stevenson’s call for keeping the public domain in public libraries has cracked into the public domain itself through First Monday, it’s time to talk turkey.

First, let me wax poetic for a moment and say that isn’t it great to be a […]

Siobhan Stevenson, faculty at the University of Toronto’s Faculty of Information Studies, has published a paper in First Monday entitled “Public libraries, public access computing, FOSS and CI: There are alternatives to private philanthropy”. Great read!

I had the great fortune to read her University of Western Ontario PhD thesis (The post-Fordist public library : […]

Congratulations go out to Marcel LaFlamme of the Graduate School of Library and Information Science at Simmons College in Boston, MA. for his essay entitled “Towards a Progressive Discourse on Community Needs Assessment: Perspectives from Collaborative Ethnography and Action Research.”

LaFlamme’s essay will be published in an upcoming edition of the PLG Journal. […]

A couple of weeks ago, the University of Windsor hosted a conference that arguably was history in the making. But before this starts to sound like hype, let me continue.

The goal of ‘20 Years of Propaganda?’ was to critically examine the current relevance and role of the propaganda model twenty years after the […]

Open Medicine’s first issue of peer reviewed medical literature is available online. Dean Giustini of UBC Library and the Google Scholar Blog has been a key player in bringing this new publication to life, and writes about it on both his blog, and now the Open Medicine blog as well. […]

Here at LA we’ve made the odd mention of the value of new and accessible audio materials, and how they support patrons needing alternatives to print materials. Shannon LaBelle, a MLIS student at SLAIS, UBC put together a fantastic presentation on the complete history of audio books in Canada.

Have a look …
Audio […]

… and while possessing wisdom is no doubt its own reward, receiving some props from your peers and being granted an opportunity to network with the PLGers at the ALA conference in Washington DC is nothing to sneeze at.

Submissions are being accepted by the Progressive Librarian’s Guild for the Miriam Braverman Memorial Award. Essays that […]