Author: Sanford Berman Publisher: ISBN: 9780786402397 Category : Languages : en Pages : 0
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The writing in this highly acclaimed biennial has so far featured the best of the alternative library journalism, according to Library Journal. Melvil Dewey's anti-Semitism, feminist librarianship, small presses, self-censorship, green librarianship and virtual libraries are some of the topics covered in this edition, with writings from Sarah Pritchard, Wayne Wiegand, Chris Atton, Charles Willett, Bill Bigelow, Shiraz Durrani and others. Articles come from such diverse sources as Progressive Librarian, Multicultural Review, American Jewish History, and The Match. A special feature looks at the zine scene, with experts examining the phenomenon and what it means for libraries.
Author: Alfred Kagan Publisher: McFarland ISBN: 1476617295 Category : Language Arts & Disciplines Languages : en Pages : 308
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This work presents the history and impact of the seven most important progressive library organizations worldwide—in Austria, Germany, South Africa, Sweden, United Kingdom, and two in the United States. Each organization is considered within its national context, and in fact, the English word “organization” does not quite fit the nature of all of the groups. The South African organization, LIWO, was transitional in that it helped bring South African librarianship from apartheid to majority rule and then disbanded. The other organizations or their successors are still working in one form or another. Some of the organizations have had or continue to have vibrant local chapters, though many of the original activists have recently retired or died. The author has interviewed many of them at a time when they were assessing their life work, and handing off to new generations.
Author: Chris Atton Publisher: SAGE ISBN: 1849202907 Category : Language Arts & Disciplines Languages : en Pages : 193
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What are `alternative media′? Are they the same as underground, radical or oppositional media? In this book, Chris Atton offers a fresh introduction to alternative media: one which is not limited to `radical′ media, but can also account for newer cultural forms such as zines, fanzines, and personal websites. Alternative Media: · Examines how and why people produce and use alternative media - to make meaning, to interpret, and to change the world in which they live · Encompasses a wide range of alternative media and draws on examples from both the United States and United Kingdom · Locates contemporary alternative media in their cultural, historical and political contexts Alternative Media provides a timely corrective to media theorizing which focuses almost exclusively on the output of the media conglomerates. As such it will be an essential purchase for all students and researchers with an interest in the true nature of the contemporary media environment.
Author: Jeanette C. Smith Publisher: McFarland ISBN: 078649056X Category : Language Arts & Disciplines Languages : en Pages : 240
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Despite the stodgy stereotypes, libraries and librarians themselves can be quite funny. The spectrum of library humor from sources inside and outside the profession ranges from the subtle wit of the New Yorker to the satire of Mad. This examination of American library humor over the past 200 years covers a wide range of topics and spans the continuum between light and dark, from parodies to portrayals of libraries and their staffs as objects of fear. It illuminates different types of librarians--the collector, the organization person, the keeper, the change agent--and explores stereotypes like the shushing little old lady with a bun, the male scholar-librarian, the library superhero, and the anti-stereotype of the sexy librarian. Profiles of the most prominent library humorists round out this lively study.
Author: Junhao Hong Publisher: Springer Nature ISBN: 9819924774 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 195
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This book systematically and comprehensively studies on alternative media in Taiwan, using a historical approach and primary data and first hand collected materials to examine how political openness and social movement in the 1980s through the 1990s in Taiwan enabled the rapid growth and wide development of Taiwan’s alternative media, what impact the alternative media in Taiwan had on its socio-political transformation, and what implications Taiwan’s case of alternative media has for other societies, especially for other Asian societies. This book would be a good reading for intellectuals, media professionals, government analysts, and the general public as well, who are interested in this topic.
Author: Shiraz Durrani Publisher: Library Juice Press, LLC ISBN: 0980200407 Category : Great Britain Languages : en Pages : 385
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"A collection of the writings of Shiraz Durrani, British-Kenyan library science professor and political activist"--Provided by publisher.
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