Library Culture
an eclectic collection of images and documents of the library and information management profession

Progressive Librarians Guild

"In 1831 Alexis de Tocqueville noted that there was scarcely a plowman In America who did not have a book or a broadsheet newspaper fastened between the handles of his plow so that he could read as he tediously trod the rows of earth turned by his prairie cutter plows. It was a time when books were expensive and hard to get, yet they were widely shared and much discussed by Americans of all classes. Today, I am told by book marketers that about half of all American households never buy a book in any given year. " -Joe Bageant, 4/3/2007

"My office was so low that people avoided me. One of my tasks was to register the names of people who came to read newspapers, but to most of them I did not exist as a human being."
-Mao Zedong, on working as an Assistant Librarian at Beijing University, 1918;
from Red Star Over China, by Edgar Snow.

Professional news

"The Future of Librarians in the Workforce" - web portal for research on librarian recruitment and retention project via IMLS.
Also read single-page pdf project description and summary from ARL.
LAUC-B Position on Retention of Librarian Positions at UC Berkeley 6/26/2006

Articles, essays, and other documents by/about Lincoln Cushing

"A librarian champions political poster art," Library Journal Academic Newswire, 5/31/2007
Cutting-edge information management technology - from 1904
Unprocessed social movement collections at UC Berkeley - 6/2006
Review of flatbed scanner with unique applications for special collections
Speech
at rally supporting public libraries in Salinas, CA, 2005
"Budget axe strikes; librarian gets layoff notice," (PDF format), UC-AFT Perspective, Spring 2004
"California Librarian: LIncoln Cushing," California Libraries, January 24, 2004
Letter on Cold-War pedagogy sent to American Educator (national magazine of the AFT)
Resources on comparable librarian salaries
Review of "Vandals in the Stacks? A Response to Nicholson Baker's Assault on Libraries"
Clark Kerr collection donated to IIR Library, commemorative bookplate issued
"Taking a Stand in Information Management"- U.C. Berkeley SIMS (now I-School) graduation speech 5/12/2001 (PDF)
"Call for Papers," Modern Industrial Papermaking and its Consequences for Librarians and Archivists

Protection of images on the Web

samples from my archive of library and literacy graphics
Stained galss window, Cuba national library
Cuba litearcy graphic by Elizabeth Catlett

graphic by Rini Templeton

 

Graphic by Rini Templeton Detail of mural by Diego Rivera Bookplate from collection at Cuban national library

Old school
University of Durham, EnglandKing's Lynn, England
University library- University of Durham, England, 2002; Public library- King's Lynn, England, 2002

return to Docs Populi, Lincoln Cushing's webpage
last updated 10/30/2007