Being a lifelong, mild, and not especially engagé liberal, I was surprised and somewhat flattered when in the spring of 1990 I was invited to join the newly formed Progressive Librarians Guild (PLG). A few months before, I had published an article in The New Republic critiquing the current vogue towards the overt commercialization of library acquisitions that, from my perspective on the reference desk at the Brooklyn Public Library, wasn’t serving the public very well.
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