Elliott Shore

• Bryn Mawr College

The library-press relationship explored in P2L allows for transformative approaches in support and dissemination of scholarship. Effective exploitation of these partnerships is in the early stages and there is an opportunity to influence the outcomes to ensure they are as broadly applicable and scalable as possible. As Cliff Lynch (CNI) noted in hi...

This article is based upon a decade of experience as the director of a merged organization. It includes the author's insights he has gained while working as Dean of the Council on Library and Information Resources (CLIR) Postdoctoral Fellowship in Academic Libraries and as a founding member of the CLIR/CIOs group. The article suggests ways to think...

In this article we attempt to complicate traditional--and, we argue, limited and exclusionary--definitions of interdisciplinarity as the bringing into dialogue of established disciplines without questioning the parameters and practices of those disciplines. We propose that interdisciplinarity instead might mean teaching and learning among, between,...

Introduction: "A Better World's in Birth" Utopianism and Radicalism in Literary Expressions The Ideological Matrix of Reform in Late Nineteeth-Century America: Reading Bellamy's Looking Backward The "New Woman" in Turn-of-the-Century Utopian Fiction: Bellamy's Equality and Gilman's "A Woman's Utopia" Racial Boundaries and "Hidden" African-American...

Personal experiences of a librarian's 1982 trip to the People's Republic of China are related, noting impressions of Chinese communism, encounters with the Chinese, the National Library in Beijing, a visit to a branch library of the public library system, and the Shanghai Public Library. (EJS)

It is time for some different brand names. Librarians are notorious for unthinkingly ordering books from major publishers. There is an understandable logic at work: these are large and well respected companies and their products must meet rigorous standards in order to be published. A secondary assumption underlies the first; if the book isn't so h...

This is the first in a projected series of columns which will suggest materials for libraries from alternative, independent, radical, and small presses. Each column will focus on one aspect of the burgeoning independent press movement. In this issue we will suggest the salient alternative press periodicals in a number of categories, publications wh...

More than the previous two columns, this list is highly suspect. It represents what I like to read from England, what I could get my hands on, and what could serve as a core collection for an American library. What I immediately want to do is disclaim that these are the most representative or even the most sensible choices for libraries, although I...

The most challenging aspect of overseeing an alternative press collection is to provide adequate reference service. The same forces that cause libraries to ignore alternative publications also conspire against their using them fully and effectively once they have been acquired. This holds true for all forms of alternative literature and media, thou...

Where in our library collections will we find information on Jimmy Carter's membership in the Trilateral Commission? Can we answer a reference question on the effects of substitution of powdered milk for breast feeding in Third World countries? How about a question on the effectiveness of the four billion dollar anti‐cancer campaign in the United S...

The papers presented focus on the library acquisition, processing, and use of alternative publications, which include small press and other materials produced by non-standard, non-establishment groups or individuals. In "Libraries and Alternatives: An Essay," Patricia Glass Schuman discusses the importance of alternative publications and the role o...