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> Librarians Say: Stop Bombing Yugoslavia's Kosovo and Serbia!
> Last updated: April 15, 1999
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> Socially responsible and progressive librarians, library workers and students in the field of librarianship oppose the US-led NATO military attacks on Yugoslavia's Kosovo and Serbia. This is the wrong means to the just end of halting Serbia's repression of Kosovo's Albanian majority. Missiles and bombs will not resolve this conflict and, as an intervention in an internal civil conflict involving an undeclared war against a sovereign nation, will only fan the flames of ethnic hatreds.
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> It must be noted that NATO and the US ignored the peaceful and organized protests of the Kosovars beginning in 1989 when Milosevic revoked the autonomy of the Kosovo region. It was not until the emergence last year of the violent and ultra-nationalist Kosovo Liberation Front that the world and the US government took notice. Eight years passed during which the problem could have been addressed diplomatically. Now, with the bombing underway, the Serbs will use the opportunity to crush all organized Albanian resistance.
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> There is no doubt that the current crisis in Kosovo, as previously in Bosnia, is a result of Serbian extremism and ethnic nationalism. Bombing Serbia is, however, not the only alternative. Indeed, it strengthens Milosovic's ultranationalistic appeal, while it is unlikely to create anything but disorder and dissaray and an atmosphere in which the important Serbian democratic movements will find it impossible to develop. We must find a way through the UN and renewed, patient and skillful diplomacy to assure autonomy for Kosovo and stay the hand of Milosovic while laying the basis for a stable peace and re-invigorated economic development. We suggest the massive deployment of UN observers between the two sides and further negotiations involving truly "mixed," representative delegations.
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> There is, of course, a great deal of hypocrisy involved in the US concern for the Kosovars when one considers the indifference of the US to the similar plight of the Kurds, suffering at the hands of our ally Turkey. Be that as it may, the policy being pursued now, in which NATO and the US in particular bomb Serbia until Milosevic says "uncle", cannot be the only alternative. If it is, how many innocent Serbs will die, how much of Serbia will be destroyed, laid waste, while Milosevic hunkers down for the duration and, worse, uses this period to unleash terror against all opponents including but not restricted to the KLA?
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> We say:
> Support the democracy movement in Serbia!
> End the senseless and counterproductive bombing!
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> Mark Rosenzweig, Co-editor, Progressive Librarian, ALA Councilor at large, NYC
> March 25, 1999
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> Clare Marie Ackroyd, Bath, ME
> David Alexander, University of Nebraska at Kearney
> Jos. Anemaet, Corvallis, OR
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> Derik A. Badman
> Julie Bauer, MLIS Student, Catholic University of America, Washington, D.C.
> Tom Baxter, Reference Librarian, Dept. of Legal Affairs Library, Talahassee, FL
> Ågot Berger, Århus Public Library, Aarhus, Denmark
> Sanford Berman, Hennepin County Library, Minnetonka, MN
> Howard Besser
> Jonathan Betz-Zall, University Friends Meeting, Seattle, Washington
> Kate Bradley, Librarian, Bellevue Community College, Washington State
> Cathy Bremer, San Francisco Public Library, CA
> Meredith B. Bull, Center for Highly Interactive Computing in Education
> Julie Burns, Reference Librarian, Mars Hill College, Mars Hill, NC
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> Thomas E. Camp, Retired, Library of the School of Theology, Univ. of the South Sewanee, TN
> Tom Childs, Douglas College Library, British Columbia, Canada
> Ann Cockerham, Librarian, Indiana State University, Terre Haute IN, USA
> Dan Coffey
> Diedre Conkling, Lincoln County Library District, Newport, OR 97365
> Ingrid Crowther, Professor, Loyalist College, Belleville, Ont., Canada
> Edgar Crook, Canberra, ACT, Australia
> Gail Curry, Reference Librarian, University of Northern British Columbia Library, Prince George, BC, Canada
> Alison Curtis, Vancouver, CAN
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> Raimund Dehmlow, Librarian, Hannover, Germany
> Chris Dodge, Hennepin County Library, Minnetonka, MN 55305
> Hans-Michael Dolle, Bibliotecario, Centre d'Estudis Teologics de Mallorca, Palma de Mallorca, Spain
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> Mary Engle, California Digital Library, Oakland, CA
> Nadine d'Entremont, School of Library and Information Studies, Dalhousie University Halifax, NS
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> Yvonne Farley, Kanawha County Public Library, Charleston, WV
> Michelle Filleul
> Sean Fitting, Library Assistant, University of San Diego Legal Research Center, San Diego, CA, US
> Maurice J. Freedman, Westchester Library System, Ardsley, NY 10502
> Volker Frick, Librarian, Münster, Germany
> Jennifer Friedman, Project Librarian, Northwoods HealthNet, Marshfield, WI.
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> Peter Glenister, Bibliographic Services Librarian, Mount Saint Vincent University, Halifax Nova Scotia B3M 2J6
> Joseph W. Grant, Webmaster and Publisher, BookZen and Mica Press, Madison, Wisconsin, USA
> Magda C. Grant, Retired, Milaca MN, USA
> Brenda Graves, Ellis Library, University of Missouri, Columbia, MO
> Andrea Grimes, San Francisco Public Library
> Ilse Groke, Information Retrieval, Zentralbibliothek für Medizin in Wien, Wien, Austria
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> Terry Hanstock, Librarian, Nottingham Trent University, Nottingham, United Kingdom
> Elaine Harger, Co-Editor Progressive Librarian, Newark, NJ
> Julie Herrada, Labadie Collection
> Sarah Holmes, Reference Librarian, Salem, Massachusetts
> Ben Hood, Bibliographer, Boston University Library, Boston MA, USA
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> Margot Isabelle, Librarian, Massachusetts College of Art, Boston MA, USA
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> Ron Jacobs, Bailey Howe Library, University of Vermont, Burlington, VT
> Nick James, University of Leicester, UK
> Adrian Janes, Central Reference Library, Romford, Essex, England
> Mark H. Jensen, School of Fine Arts, Miami University, Oxford, OH
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> Al Kagan, Africana Unit, University of Illinois Library, Urbana, IL
> Søren Kløjgaard, Hasle Bibliotek, Århus DK
> Monique Kriescher-Fauchs Stolz, Librarian and Sociologist, Free University, Berlin, Germany
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> Andrew H. Lee, Tamiment Library, New York University, NYC
> Walt Lessun, Librarian, The University of Findlay City, Findlay OH, USA
> Alison Lewis, PhD, American Philosophical Society Library, Philadelphia, PA
> Terry Link
> Rory Litwin, MLIS, San Jose, CA
> Alain L'Huissier, Chairman of O.S.F. (Ondes Sans Frontieres), Paris, France
> Martyn Lowe, London, England
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> Annette MacNair, San Francisco Public Library
> S. Michael Malinconico, School of Library and Information Studies, The University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa, AL
> Dena Marger, Librarian, Brooklyn Public Library, Brooklyn NY, US
> Holly L. McCullough, Foundation Center at the Carnegie Library, Pittsburgh, PA
> Peter McDonald, Geneva Library, Cornell University, NY
> Victoria J. Medaglia, Cataloging Librarian, Babson College, Wellesley, MA
> Petra Milhoffer, Professor, University of Bremen, Bremen, Germany
> Nancy Milnor, Librarian, Rosenberg Library, Galveston, Texas, USA
> Linda Molinario, Jefferson Parish Library, Metairie, Louisiana
> Derek Monypeny, MLIS, Oakland, CA
> Susan Mottram, Assistant Librarian, University of Leeds City, Leeds, UK
> Jane Motz, Faculty of Information Studies, University of Toronto, Toronto, CANADA
> C. Munson
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> Andy Norton, Library Assistant, Leeds University, UK
> Elaine Nowick, Lincoln. Nebraska
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> Kinsey Oleman, Dayton, OH
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> A. Ralph Papakhian, Indiana University Music Library, Bloomington, IL
> Valerie Patrick, MLIS, Language Institute, University of Regina, Regina, Canada
> Rüdiger Pfeil, Librarian, Karlsruhe, Germany
> Miriam Pickens, Wayne State University, Detroit, MI
> Radosh Piletich, Cataloger, New York University, Bobst Library as a Copy, NY
> Jeff Purdue, Chicago, Ill.
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> Milan Radovich M., University of Wisconsin-Madison, CTS Area Studies, Memorial Library, Madison, WI, USA
> Joel J. Rane, Los Angeles Public Library, Los Angeles, California
> Carol Reid, New York State Library, Albany, NY
> Laura Reiner, Graduate Student in Library and Information Science, Simmons College Boston, MA
> Deborah A. Richards, Graduate Student, Graduate School of Library and Information Science, Simmons College, Boston, Massachusetts
> Carolyn Riddle, Graduate Student, School of Information Resources and Library Science, University of Arizona
> Melissa Riley, Librarian, San Francisco Public Library
> Katia Roberto, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
> Carmen Rousseau, Librarian, Universit* du Qu*bec ˆ Hull, Hull, Qu*bec, Canada
> Steven Rouzer, Eisenhower Library, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD
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> Richard Sapon-White, Catalog Librarian, Corvallis, Oregon, USA
> Mark Scheu, Thomas Jefferson Library, Univ. of Missouri, St. Louis
> Stephanie Schmitt, Yale University Library, New Haven, CT
> Barbara Schulz, Librarian, BZ Lüneburg, Hamburg, Germany
> Thomas Seward, University College, University of Denver, Denver, Colorado
> Ellen Shatter, San Francisco Public Library, San Francisco, CA
> Heather Shumway, New England College Library, Henniker, NH
> Toba Singer, San Francisco Public Library
> Rhonda Smith, Florida Distance Learning, Reference & Referral Center
> Sinisa Spajic, Darling School of Law, University of California, Los Angeles, California
> Ann Sparanese, Englewood Public Library, Englewood, NJ
> Lisa Stage, Tucson, AZ
> Charity K. Stokes, Love Library, University of Nebraska, Lincoln
> Frederick Stoss, Science and Engineering Library, SUNY University at Buffalo
> Jeff Purdue, Chicago, Ill.
> Thomas Stuart, St. Cloud, MN
> Geoffrey D. Swindells, Ellis Library, University of Missouri-Columbia, Columbia, MO
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> Felipe Meneses Tello, Biblioteca del Instituto de Matematicas, Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico
> Theresa A. Tobin, MIT Libraries, Head, Humanities and Dewey Libraries
> Daniel C. Tsang, Main Library, University of California, Irvine, CA
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> Dale Wertz, GSLIS, Student, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, USA
> Celia White
> Ulla Wimmer, Librarian, Deutsches Bibliotheksinstitut, Berlin, Germany
> Carol M. Withers, Indiana University-Purdue University, Indianapolis, Indianapolis, Indiana
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> Asako Yoshida, MLS, Chester Fritz Library, University of North Dakota
> Jennifer B. Young, Pius XII Memorial Library, St. Louis University
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