PLG periodically publishes Progressive Librarian, a peer-reviewed journal that serves as a forum for the development of critical perspectives in librarianship. Progressive Librarian includes articles, book reviews, bibliographies and documents. Full text access to selected articles is available through the Journal's Web site.
PLG has sponsored several programs at the annual conference of the American Library Association and at the annual Socialist Scholars Conference in New York. Topics have included the New World Information and Communications Order, the Smithsonian's "Enola Gay" controversy, academic freedom in the library workplace, and information technology.
PLG grants the Miriam Braverman Memorial Award, which encourages papers concerned with an aspect of the social responsibilities of librarians, libraries, or librarianship. In November, 2006, Progressive Librarians Guild supported the bookmobile project of Libros para Cuba (Books for Cuba).
PLG local chapters host gatherings, programs, and events. PLG members are also active in their communities.
PLG Member Activities and Achievements Include:
Visions of Peace & Justice. Edited by Progressive Librarian editorial board member, Lincoln Cushing as part of a long project to document and disseminate this genre honoring the activist and cultural community. May 1, 2007.
Kathleen de la Pena McCook receives the Florida Library Association Lifetime Achievement Award, April 13, 2007.
Jenna Freedman received the American Library Association's Elizabeth Futas Catalyst for Change Award, March 23, 2007.
Red All Over: The Visual Language of Dissent. Article written for Voice − the on-line magazine of the American Institute of Graphic Arts by Progressive Librarian editorial board member, Lincoln Cushing, January 9, 2007.
The Library as Place: History, Community, and Culture. Co-written by Progressive Librarian editorial board member, John Buschman, and Library Quarterly editorial board member, Gloria J. Leckie, December 30, 2006.
Library Daylight: Tracings of Modern Librarianship, 1874 to 1922. Edited by Progressive Librarian editorial board member, Rory Litwin, with introduction by Suzanne Stauffer, Ph.D., December 2006.
Library Juice Concentrate. Edited by Progressive Librarian editorial board member, Rory Litwin, with preface by editorial board member Kathleen de la Peņa McCook, December 2006.
Tarnel Abbott received the California Library Association's Zoia Horn Intellectual Freedom Award, November 14, 2006.
Elaine Harger, Isabel Espinal and Kathleen De La Peņa McCook's panel discussion "Librarians and Social Movements," 2006 First Joint Conference of Librarians of Color.
Mark Rosenzweig, co-editor of Progressive Librarian, visiting rural libraries in Nepal with READNepal, November 2005.
San Francisco Bay Area PLG delegation supports read-in to keep Salinas Public Libraries open, April 2, 2005.
Mark Rosenzweig, co-founder of PLG, appears in the newly-released book Viva Posada!. It contains an introduction by Carlos Cortez and a chronology of Jose Guadalupe Posada. This volume gathers together testimonies of the living and the dead writers and artists. It can be ordered from the Charles H. Kerr Publishing Company.
Lincoln Cushing, UC Berkeley Bancroft Library, is the campus bargaining representative in the 2005 statewide contract negotiations for university librarians (AFT) and was lead person on the Librarian Compensation Task Force from the previous contract.
Kathleen de la Pena McCook, author of Introduction to Public Librarianship (Neal-Schuman 2004), is member of the collective bargaining team, United Faculty of Florida, USF Local.
John Buschman. Dismantling the Public Sphere: Situating and Sustaining Librarianship in the Age of the New Public Philosophy. Libraries Unlimited, 2003. | John is the 2004 recipient of the American Library Association (ALA) Elizabeth Futas Catalyst for Change Award.
Lincoln Cushing, librarian at UC Berkeley Bancroft Library, author of Revolucion! Cuban Poster Art. Chronicle Books, 2003 and featured in article in the December 2003 issue of California Libraries.
Rory Litwin, Consulting Librarian on the California Labor History Map | Salon interview with Rory Litwin, @ Library Juice.
Michael McGrorty. Sewing Machine Murder. Xlibris,2000.
Larry Oberg, article in current special issue of Biblioteca, the journal of the Jose Marti National Library. "Experiencias para divulgar: El impacto de la automatización y la red en las bibliotecas norteamericanas."
Ann Sparanese, winner of the New York Times Librarian Award.
Samuel Trosow, University of Western Ontario. ALISE Outstanding Dissertation, 2004.
