Collaborateurs

Children of the Sun,
which is why we left all those cold academic degrees OUT and put sun signs IN

• ANON. - a very mysterious lady who is chipping away on her doctorate despite it all. She already teaches library science, including a course called "How to Keep Up Your Ideals While Bucking The System."
• PAUL AXEL - in the process of becoming a librarian, comes from Lakewood, N.J., which he likes well enough to be writing a history of.
• JULIE BABCOCK - now a librarian for a planning firm in Philadelphia, works in the local SRRT Task Force on Prison Libraries. She does not read Time or Vogue.
• SANFORD BERMAN - librarian at Makerere Institute of Social Research in Kampala, Uganda, and author of Prejudices and Antipathies. He is a scholarly wildman, who can also type 85 w/m.
• JOAN DILLON - head of a branch in S.F. (IWW?) She remained absolutely undaunted as first president of the SFPL Librarians Guild.
• GEOFFREY DUNBAR - hotly pursued by La Philpott, has fled to the Canterbury Medical Library in Christchurch, New Zealand.
• EDITH ERICSON - interested in organic gardening, free schools, and prisons. She wants to do the first, place her son in the second, and get everybody out of the third.
• MARILYN GELL - Texan by birth, Washingtonian by choice, and librarian by chance. Involved in adult services at the Arlington County, Virginia Public Library. She lives in cheerful chaos with her husband, child, cat, dog, and unicorn.
• KATHI GLAB - who prefers to be a ski bum than ever go to library school, works at the legendary Enoch Pratt Library. In telephone reference service, she is asked things like, "Is there a law against sewing the American flag to the seat of the pants like so many of those dirty hippies do?" Besides being sensuous, she is POLISH.
• BIANCA GUTTAG - pseudonym for an embattled librarian, poet, and gentlewoman farmer.
• JUDY HADLEY - always a vessel of wrath, has now decided to turn her attention to social work, after the valuable years at Portland State University Library. There, as "Super Nova," she edited the glorious staff newsletter, Synch.
• TOD HAWKS - Topeka Public Library, editor of Tall Windows, a virtuoso staff mag which features lovely centerfolds (yes, male too. "Sensuality knows no regions." Avocations: poet, sculptor, gardener, YMCA jock.
• JIM HOLLY - "The important thing is at the moment I am here at Evergreen. Where I'll be next is anybody's guess." Jim is the Mr. Natural of the ALA Council. He even has a big white beard.
• BILL HINCHLIFF - was fired from Federal City College Library for being too relevant. They won't get away with it.
• KAREN JEMISON - is currently a student at San Jose State, majoring in "book pockets - fact or fiction?" Her two greatest desires are to own a Madagascar fruit bat and to drop an anvil off the Empire State Building.
• ELIZABETH KATZ - a mystic who works part-time in the SFPL Science Dept., where her faded blue jeans bring frowns from the powers that be. Tune in next book. . . .
• LINDA KATZ (no relation ^ except fellow traveller) - a liberated librarian of King of Prussia, Pa., employed by the Wolfson Memorial Public Library. She does not read Time, Vogue, or the Drexel Library Bulletin.
• HARLEIGH KYSON - now a court recorder in LA. He has published in the underground press (how to use libraries and how to print your own book,) and done programmed instruction manuals on learning Portuguese and transliterating Russian.
• REVA LANDY - "Anon. Polytech (paranoid about trustees who could fuck up my successor) is for real; I'm going back to Pennsylvania farmland, maybe to find out if I am. Favorite color, food, and pastime available on request - also Anon. Polytech's TRUE IDENTITY."
• MARY McKENNEY - former co-editor of the Alternative Press Index, a radical gay feminist, a member of the New University Conference, and SRRT Task Force on Gay Liberation.
• JOAN MARSHALL - "The Great Leveller," Acting Chief, Catalog Division, Brooklyn College Library. She is also one of SRRT's most savvy strategists and active workers.
• ELINOR MARTIN - recommends making poems as an alternative to violence. Her favorite bumper sticker is KAFKA WAS A CIVIL SERVANT.
• RICHARD MOSES - born in Canada, 1972.
• TIM MOFFATT - "I never went into libraries voluntarily until I came to work here [Evergreen State College Library], but this kind of atmosphere has helped me unlearn a lot of bad experience and myths...I have also been led to write a book of my own, entitled This Book Is For Librarians Who Are Sick Of Looking At All Those Damn Books Just Sit There.
• SHIRLEY OLOFSON - tragically killed in an auto accident in November, will always be a dancing life force in our profession. Her last position was Publications and Information Officer for the Kentucky Program Development Office - part of the governor's staff. Her effervescence, wit, and human heartedness are widely remembered.
• ANNE OSBORN - now in charge of children's services at Taft Branch Library in Orange, Ca. Strongly influenced by pagan and Christian imagery of Maytime, lusty-month-of-May, emeralds. A Tuesday's Child, who is Full of Grace, which is what Anne means in Hebrew, which iswhy it has to be spelled correctly. Anne without an "e" is a scullery maid, but Anne with an "e" is a Queen.
• SHANNON PATTERSON - under the sign of communication, born and raised in a Colorado mountain town. Presently at California State Polytechnic Library in San Luis Obispo.
• NOEL PEATTIE - birthed on the French Riviera by two American writers. Is now in the Collection Development Section of the UC, Davis Library, specifically responsible for the Ethnic Studies Unit. He intends to keep publishing.
• ART PLOTNIK - a former newspaper reporter and fiction writer, having wielded a noisy pen for more than half his 35 years. Perhaps best known for his quiet observation that, "Librarianship is not all glamour."
• MARTHA POWERS-WILLIAMS - fearless editor of the N.J. Social Responsibilities Group Newsletter and reference librarian at Princeton Public Library. Now she's going to France.
• DON ROBERTS - "It's Cancer all the way. Other details escape me." Like being the magic media-man for SUNY, Buffalo Library School, and having twins during this book.
• MELINDA SCHROEDER - "I guess you know everything, except I am now a member of New York Radical Feminists, and I find it challenging and fun being a full-fledged woman (person) after so many years of being a girl."
• JANA VARLEJS - born in Riga, Latvia, is head of A-V and Young Adult Services at Montclair, N.J. Public Library. She was one of the founders of the N.J. Librarians for Social Responsibility, and "a not very strident sidelines agitator in and out of the establishment of NJLA and ALA."
• CELESTE WEST - was a Passionate Fragmentarian which is why she loves libraries and edits Synergy. Today, she saw a comma turn into a mermaid, and begins the long road toward coalescence.
• STEVE WOLF - cataloger at the Univ. of Mass. in Boston. Greatest professional achievement is remaining on speaking terms with the Acqusitions Dept. for over 2 years. Steve's hobbies are sex, weight-lifting, and mountain climbing. After his lover, his favorite person in the world is Julia Child.
• SONIA XX - feminist sans sir-name. Has been seen riding horseback in Central Park at 6 AM.