New book: Informed Agitation

Informed Agitation: Library and Information Skills in Social Justice Movements and Beyond

Editor: Melissa Morrone
Price: $35.00
Published: February 2014
ISBN: 978-1-936117-87-1

In librarianship today, we encourage voices from our field to join conversations in other disciplines as well as in the broader culture. People who work in libraries and are sympathetic to, or directly involved in, social justice struggles have long embodied this idea, as they make use of their skills in the service of those causes. From movement archives to zine collections, international solidarity to public library programming, oral histories to email lists, prisons to protests —and beyond —this book is a look into the projects and pursuits of activist librarianship in the early 21st century.

The target audience of this book consists of:

• People interested in going into librarianship who want an idea of nontraditional and activist areas in which librarians operate.
• Practicing library workers seeking inspiration for ways to combine their expertise with their political interests outside the library.
• Practicing library workers who want articulations of how their work fits into a broader context of power structures, politics, and social justice.
• Activists interested in collaborations with library workers and/or projects related to literature, information, education, and documentation in social movements.
• People in other fields who want to draw connections between their own work and social justice goals, and are looking for supportive literature.