A few weeks ago, I woke up with the idea for a book. The idea was literally the stuff of dreams. In my dream, it was an edited volume with Bess Sadler and I as co-editors. The book’s title was A Radical Agenda for America’s* Libraries.
Today, Bess and I scribbled out a preliminary list of chapters. I’m starting to really think that this book needs to happen. It isn’t hard to think of the perfect authors for some of these chapters:
- Radical professional education
- Radical collecting
- Radical reference
- Radical archives
- Radical preservation
- Radical publishing
- Radical leadership
- Radical metadata
- Radical access
- Radical technology
- Radical services
- Radical collaborations
- Radical funding
- Radical outreach
- Radical spaces
(* Why “America’s”? Partly because American libraries are what I know, partly because I think national context matters significantly, and partly because it was a dream, and my dream life is apparently very ethnocentric.)
Feral Librarian 
Yes! It’s been 10 years since Revolting Librarians Redux. It’s time.
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Go independent! Go with Library Juice Press!
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It could happen. Stay tuned.
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Remember there are two “Americas” — North and South.
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Fair enough. Like I said, my dream mind is limited
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Well, it would have been more ethnocentric to title it A Radical Agenda for Libraries and then make it only about America’s libraries.
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Excellent point!
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