This list of sources was compiled in 2003. I have made only minor additions
and updates since then but hope to expand this list soon. Thanks for submitting your comments/suggestions/updates. More
comments and suggestions are always welcome -- my contact info appears
at the botton of this page. jl.
Albert, Michael. "What Makes Alternative Media Alternative?"
ZMag. <http://www.zmag.org/whatmakesalti.htm>
24 February 2003.
Alcock, Taralee. Free Speech for Librarians? A Review of Socially
Responsible Librarianship, 1967-1999. <http://libr.org/rory/Alcock.html>
6 May 2003.
Alternative Library Literature: A Biennial Anthology. Phoenix, AZ
: Oryx Press, 1984 - . Selected articles from this anthology are included
in this bibliography.
American Library Association, Social Responsibilities Round Table,
Alternatives in Print Task Force, Byron Anderson, compiler. Alternative
Publishers of Books in North America. 5th edition, revised and enlarged.
Gainesville, FL: CRISES Press, 2002.
Anderson, Byron. "The Other 90 Percent:
What Your MLS Didn't Teach You." Counterpoise 3.3-4 (31 October
1999): 11 - . Also available on the Web: <http://libr.org/Juice/issues/vol3/LJ_3.17.html#18>
---. "Pursuing Small, Independent Book Publishers." Counterpoise
4.3 (31 July 2000): 17.
Ardito, Stephanie C . "The Alternative Press: Newsweeklies and
Zines." Database 22.3 (Jun/Jul 1999): 14 - 22.
"Arbitrary Subject Headings Assigned by the Library of Congress
or The Importance of Alternative Cataloging-in-Publication."
Librarians at Liberty 5.2 & 6.1-2 (30 June 1998): 22 - .
Atton, Chris. "A Reassessment of the Alternative
Press." Media, Culture & Society 21 (1999): 51 - 76.
---. "Critical Thinking and Critical Librarianship." Assistant
Librarian (January 1994): 11 - 12.
Berlet, Chip. "We Weren't Entirely Paranoid." Alternative
Library Literature (1988/89): 147 - 49.
Berman, Sanford, Carol Reid and Charles Willett. "The American
Library Association, Intellectual Freedom, the Alternative Press,
and 'Libraries: An American Value'." Alternative Library Literature
(1998/99) 81 - 84.
"Bibliographic Tools for the Alternative Press." Counterpoise
3.2 (April 1999). <http://www.libr.org/AIP/bibtools.html>
20 March 2002.
Bundy, Mary L., Frederick J. Stielow, eds. Activism in American Librarianship,
1962 - 1973. New York: Greenwood Press, 1987.
Campbell, Brian. "Media Concentration and the Role of Libraries
in Promoting a Diversity of Voices." Feliciter 48.6 (2002): 275
- 77.
---. "Stuck in Neutral." Quill & Quire (June 2003):
23.
Chomsky, Noam. "What Makes Mainstream Media Mainstream: From
a talk at Z Media Institute, June 1997." ZMagazine <http://www.zmag.org/zmag/articles/chomoct97.htm>
Accessed 24 February 2003.
Chu, Julie. "Navigating the Media Environment: How Youth Claim
a Place Through Zines." Social Justice: A Journal of Crime, Conflict
& World Order 24.3 (30 September 1997): 71 - .
Dilevko, Juris. "Why Sally Tilsdale is Really Upset About the
State of Libraries: Socio-political Implications of Internet Information
Sources." Alternative Library Literature (1998/99) 395 - 408.
Dilevko, Juris and Kalina Grewal. "A New
Approach to Collection Bias in Academic Libraries: The Extent of Corporate
Control in Journal Holdings." Library & Information Science
Research 19.4 (1997): 359 - 85.
Dodge, Chris. "Street Newspapers Create Lively Alternative to
Establishment Media." Alternative Library Literature (1998/99)
242 - 45.
Embardo, Ellen E. "The Alternative Press Collection, University
of Connecticut." The Library Quarterly (date?) 55 - 63.
Hamilton, J. "Alternative Media: Conceptual
Difficulties, Critical Possibilities." Journal of Communication
Inquiry 24.4 (October 2000): 357 - 78.
Hamilton J., and C. Atton. "Theorizing Anglo-American Alternative
Media: Toward a Contextual History and Analysis of U.S. and UK Scholarship.
Media History 7.2 (December 2001): 119 - 50.
Hudson, Mark. "Understanding Information Media in the Age of
Neoliberalism: The Contributions of Herbert Schiller." Progressive
Librarian 16 (Fall 1999) <http://www.libr.org/PL/16_Hudson.html>
4 April 2002.
Hyde, Gene. "Independent Media Centers: Cyber-Subversion and
the Alternative Press." First Monday 7.4 (April 2002). <http://firstmonday.org/issues/issue7_4/hyde/index.html>
4 April 2002.
Kelleher, James B. "Alternative Papers." Columbia Journalism
Review 38.6 (March-April 2000): 48 - 49.
Kranich, Nancy. "A Question of Balance:
The Role of Libraries in Providing Alternatives to the Mainstream
Media." Collection Building 19.3 (2000): 85 - 90. Also available
on the Web: <http://libr.org/Juice/issues/vol3/LJ_3.18.html#12>
---. "Scholarly Publishers Hold Universities Hostage: Monopoly
on Journals Causes Prices to Soar." Alternative Library Literature
(1998/99) 109 - 10.
LaFond, Deborah, Mary K. Van Ullen, and Richard D. Irving. "Diversity
in Collection Development: Comparing Access Strategies to Alternative
Press Periodicals." College & Research Libraries (March 2000):
136 - 44.
Lilburn, Jeff. "Re-examining the Concept of Neutrality for Academic
Librarians." Feliciter 49.1 (2003): 30 - 32.
Marinko, Rita A., and Kristin H. Gerhard. "Representations of
the Alternative Press in Academic Library Collections." College
& Research Libraries (July 1998): 364 - 71.
McChesney, Robert W. "Global Media, Neoliberalism, and Imperialism."
Monthly Review 52.10 (March 2001) <http://www.monthlyreview.org/301rwm.htm>
5 April 2002.
McDonald, Peter. "Corporate Inroads & Librarianship: The
Fight for the Soul of the Profession in the New Millennium."
Progressive Librarian 12/13 (31 July 1997): 32 - . <http://libr.org/PL/12-13_McDonald.html>
Messman, Terry. "Dissenting Voices of the Street." Alternative
Library Literature (1998/99) 239 - 41.
Miller, Mark Crispin. "The Crushing Power of Big Publishing."
The Nation 264.10 (17 March 1997): 11 - 18.
Miller, Mark Crispin with a Response by John Buschman. "Reading
in the Age of Global Media." Progressive Librarian 18 (Summer
2001) <http://libr.org/PL/18_Miller-Buschman.html>
27 February 2002.
Moore, Aaron J. "Ownership: A Chill in Canada." Columbia
Journalism Review 40.6 (March-April 2002): 11 - .
Neal, Dave. "Internetworking and the Threat of Democracy."
Alternative Library Literature (1998/99) 424 - 30.
Oliphant, Tami. "The Invisibility of the Alternative Press."
School of Library and Information Studies. University of Alberta.
<http://www.slis.ualberta.ca/cap01/tami/> 20 March 2002. **
Now available here: Library Juice 5:1 Supplement (January 3, 2002)
<http://libr.org/Juice/issues/vol5/LJ_5.1.sup.html>
Peterson, David. "The Global Media: An Interview with Edward
S. Herman & Robert McChesney." Third World Traveler (June
1997) <http://www.thirdworldtraveler.com/Media/Global_Media.html>
16 April 2002.
Pohl-Weary, Emily. "A Place Just Like Home: Your Cross-Canada
Tour of Alternative Media." Alternative Library Literature (1998/99)
258-66.
Roberto, Katia, and Jessamyn West, eds. Revolting Librarians Redux:
Radical Librarians Speak Out. McFarland, 2003. About the book: http://librarian.net/revolting/
Rosenzweig, Mark C. Transcript of "What Progressive Librarians
Believe: An International Perspective": A Presentation to the
Vienna International Library Conference of AKRIBIE at the Dr. Karl-Renner-Institut.
2000. Progressive Librarians Guild. <http://www.libr.org/PLG/Vienna2000.html>
15 August 2003.
Samek, Toni. "Intellectual Freedom within the Profession: A
Look back at Freedom of Expression And the Alternative Library Press."
Counterpoise 4.1-2 (30 April 2000): 10 - . Also available here: http://www.libr.org/Juice/issues/vol6/LJ_6.6.html
Schiffrin, Andre. "Public-interest Publishing in a World of
Conglomerates." Alternative Library Literature (1998/99) 236
- 38.
"Sources for Locating Independent Book Publishers." Counterpoise
4.3 (31 July 2000): 18.
Synergy. San Francisco, Bay Area Reference Center, San Francisco
Public Library. Published monthly, 1967 - 73.
Wachsberger, Ken. "Underground Press Veteran Discovers Thriving,
Self-described Underground Press Scene." Serials Review (Winter
1994): 53 - 60.
Waisbord, S. "What's in a Name? The Many Lives of Alternative
Media." Media Development 45.3 (1998): 45 - 48.
West, Celeste and Elizabeth Katz et al. Revolting librarians. San
Francisco: Booklegger Press, 1972. Most of the articles from this
collection are available here: http://owen.massey.net/libraries/revolting/
"Where are the Alternatives?" Counterpoise 2.1 (31 January
1998): 6.
Willett, Charles. "ALA and the Alternative Press." Librarians
at Liberty 2.2 & 3.1 (January 31 1995).
---. "Alternative Libraries and Infoshops: The Struggle against
Corporate and Government Indoctrination in American Schools and Universities,
and in Daily Life." Librarians at Liberty 8.1&2 (December
31 2000): 11 - .
---. "Consider the Source: A Case Against Outsourcing Materials
Selection in Academic Libraries." Collection Building 17.2 (1998):
91 - 95.
---. "Politically Controversial Monographs." Progressive
Librraian 4 (Winter 1991/92): 28-36. <http://libr.org/PL/4_Willett.html>
---. "Social Responsibilities and the Undergraduate Library."
Librarians at Liberty 2.2 & 3.1 (January 31 1995): 16 - .
---. "The State of Alternative Publishing
in America: Issues and Implications for Libraries." Counterpoise
3.1 (January 1999): 14 - .
Woodsworth, Anne. The Alternative Press in Canada: A Checklist of
Underground, Revolutionary, Radical and Other Alternative Serials
from 1960. U of Toronto Press, 1972.
