Progressive Librarians Guild (PLG)

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The purpose of the Progressive Librarians Guild is to foster discussion and action related to librarianship and social responsibility. We believe that the vital role of the library in a democratic society requires a politically and socially engaged profession.

PLG's Commitment

- providing a forum for the open exchange of radical views on library issues.

- conducting campaigns to support progressive and democratic library activities locally, nationally and internationally.

- supporting activist librarians as they work to effect changes in their own libraries and communities.

- bridging the artificial and destructive gaps between school, public, academic and special libraries, and between public and technical services.

- encouraging debate about prevailing management strategies adopted directly from the business world, to propose democratic forms of library administration, and to foster unity between librarians and other library workers.

- critically considering the impact of technological change in the library workplace, on the provision of library services, and on the character of public discourse.

- monitoring the professional ethics of librarianship from a perspective of social responsibility.

- facilitating contacts between progressive librarians and other professional and scholarly groups dealing with communications and all the political, social, economic and cultural trends which impact upon it worldwide, in a global context.

Visit our home on the web http://www.lis.uiuc.edu/plg

Join our mailing list http://lists.riseup.net/www/info/plg-gslis

PLG Central http://libr.org/plg/index.php