2007 Kickoff meeting!

Come join us on a Friday evening!
LIBRARIANS DRINKING RADICALLY
Date: Friday, October 19, 2007
Time: 5:30 PM
Place: Chatterbox Pub (on Cleveland just south of Ford Parkway)
Agenda: Welcome new members, organize activities for the semester.

EVENT: Kick-off meeting for the school year

This is the first PLG meeting of the school year! We'll brainstorm and discuss plans for the year including PLG volunteer opportunities. Bring your ideas, and we'll bring the pizza!

Date: Monday, October 9th
Time: 6:00 pm
Place: 3rd floor lounge area (at the top of the stairs) in Coeur de Catherine

EVENT: Library Unions

Please join the PLG Student Chapter for an informal discussion with Hennepin County Librarian Solveig Nilsen! We’ll hear about union organizing, workers’ rights, as well as the nature of working within an urban library system.

When: Monday, April 24^th
Time: 7 p.m.
Where: Turtle Bread Company, 4762 Chicago Ave, Minneapolis.

Solveig Nilsen has worked as a Reference Librarian at Ridgedale Area Library since 1982. An original organizer of the Union Local AFSCME 2864, she has also been the union's Vice-President, a member of the Labor Management Committee, and a member of the Dignity & Respect Team in Hennepin County and at Ridgedale Library. Solveig holds a BA from St. Olaf and obtained her MA in Library Science from the University of Minnesota.

Questions? Let us know at progressive (at) stkate (dot) edu.

Thank you, Mark!

We are happy to report that the skillshare on metadata was a smashing success. Huge thanks go out to Mark for a wonderful and informative session, and also thank you to all who attended!

Stay tuned for April happenings. The semester's not over yet . . .

Skillshare March 30

Rogers’ Folly?; Or, I Never Metadata I Didn’t Like

When: Thursday, March 30 at 6 pm
Where: CDC, room 361

Metadata. It's a word we hear quite a bit these days. But what exactly is it? What is its purpose? Is it another in a long string of passing fads or the wave of the future?

Join us as fellow student Mark Ehlert provides a brief introduction to metadata--its definition, its function, and its place in describing and harnessing information in libraries and information centers.

e-mail: progressiveATstkate.edu

Precinct Caucuses on Tuesday, March 7, 2006

A reminder that voter caucuses are just around the corner -- on Tuesday evening, March 7th.

For more information, see the links below.

Hennepin County

Dakota County

Ramsey County

Thanks to Jennifer Brannen!

Braverman Award Call for Entries

CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS
Miriam Braverman Memorial AwardPresented byProgressive Librarians Guild

Seeks papers concerned with an aspect of the social responsibilities oflibrarians, libraries, or librarianship.

GUIDELINES FOR SUBMISSION:Entrants must be Library/Information Science students attending agraduate level program in the United States or Canada. Entries must be the original, unpublished work of the entrant, inEnglish, and must not exceed 3,000 words. The topic of the paper should concern an aspect of the social responsibilities of librarians, libraries, or librarianship. This could include, but is not limited to, such topics as professional ethics in the age of the USA PATRIOT Act; information as a commodity; the political value choices of cataloging and indexing; the role oflibraries in bridging the information gap; democratic management systems within libraries, etc.

Each entry should include a cover sheet containing the entrant's name, full contact information (address, phone number, e-mail address), name of the institution where the entrant is enrolled, and the title of the paper. No identifying information, other than the title, should appear on the paper itself.

Entries must be submitted electronically, in MS Word or RTF format, to BOTH alewisATdrexel.edu and cgulyasATcolum.edu The winning entry will be published in Progressive Librarian and mustconform to MLA in-text citation style.

The winning entrant will alsoreceive a $300 stipend toward attendance at the 2006 American LibraryAssociation annual conference in New Orleans, and an award at the annual PLG dinner. The judges' decision is final. The act of submission implies the unqualified acceptance of the conditions of entry by the entrant. Entries must be received no later than 6pm EST on March 24, 2006.

Miriam Ruth Gutman Braverman (1920-2002) was a socialist, activist librarian and longstanding member of the Progressive Librarians Guild, a founder of ALA's Social Responsibilities Round Table, and a proponent ofthe social responsibilities perspective. Miriam's spirit of activism and faith in the power of people's collective efforts toward social justice is what the Miriam Braverman Award is intended to foster in future generations of librarians. More information on Progressive Librarians Guild is available athttp://libr.org/PLG/

Alison M. Lewis, Chair
Braverman Award Committee

Alison M. Lewis, Ph.D.Humanities & Social Sciences
Librarian Hagerty LibraryDrexel University
alewisATdrexel.edu
215.895.2765
http://www.library.drexel.edu/services/refhumsoc.html