If you are a librarian you have a concern with professional practice; if you are a socialist, you have a concern not only with public good, but what that might be; if you are &, you are stacking it up.
I stumbled upon this
An additional resolution moved by GEORGE BARCLAY (GMWU branch at Stanton Works of the British Steel Corporation) called for more specific commitment on racialism, abortion, contraception and expropriation. It was defeated by more than two to one after KEN HUME (TGWU, Coventry) asked conference to concentrate on the minimal demands which could unite the maximum number of rank and ffle trade unionists.
1974.
There is enough in here for cultural change, the death of god, sex before the sexual revolution, and lgbt cultures, but what it brought to my mind is the matter of how to classify cultural change.
We had Librarians for Social Changes, the journal, or magazine, we had librarians and social change, the organisations and conferences, we had the destruction by Auntie of the Library Association Library, and now we have google and bing.
What a world
There might be lis-linkeders who were in NALGO and might remember anything of branches debating matters and sending people to rank and file conferences, I think in NALGO it was Action Group, and there might be people still with a cardbox box somewhere? There might also be librarians who have jostled these matters; I'd like to track down any.
John Lindsay
Reader in Information Systems Design
Kingston University,
Kingston Upon Thames,
London.
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