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It's not enough to simply acquire alternative and small‐press materials. They must also be made easily accessible to library users by means of accurate, intelligible, and thorough cataloging.

As is true of so much that we read and hear, neither of these statements is wholly accurate. While the Association of American Publishers may not have a position in favor of increasing conglomeration in the publishing industry, it is most certainly not opposed to it. As others have noted in this handbook, the growing domination of publishing by a small number of large firms is changing the amount and quality of available information in ways not yet fully understood. If libraries are to provide quality service, library workers should bring all their powers of analysis and skepticism to their jobs. They must involve themselves more fully than ever before in all aspects of knowledge and its avenues of dissemination, so that the library might provide as full a range of resources and services as possible for the needs of its clientele. To judge materials without examination, or without careful regard for the source of information, is to abdicate the inherent responsibility of a library service. For in a great many ways, the librarian's selection of materials influences what is published.

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 States? What about the costs of decommissioning nuclear power plants?

Celeste West: As publisher of Down There Press, your nine titles are famous, even notorious, for being the most “out there” sex titles this side of pornography. Yet you are an ardent feminist—in fact, one of the most successful and respected women in feminist publishing. A lot of people would feel that combining pleasure and politics makes for strange bedfellows, so to speak. How did this come about?

The library is the only social institution whose main ethical underpinning is the collection, preservation, and dissemination of all manner of information. This, at any rate, is the library's avowed goal. It rarely becomes a reality, and for good and sundry reasons: budget constraints, space limitations, personnel shortages. The danger is not so much that the library often falls short of its heady and laudable goal, but that librarians are sometimes seized by an almost pathological smugness. In short, they come to believe that the goal is actually being realized.

In the March 1983 issue of the Moral Majority Report, Jerry Falwell, one of the leaders of the new right movement, leveled a very serious charge at librarians: they are failing to include “conservative” materials in their collections. According to him,

As old familiar publishing houses transmogrify into the diversified corporate structure these days, trade books are being contrived in board rooms with markets in mind, with profits prefigured, and with primary attention to the work's suitability as a product. At the same time, in the last ten to fifteen years, the alternative, independent publishers, often so small as to be called “family operations,” have grown in number and are taking the risks big commerce, oddly enough, cannot afford. With the purchase of small press and alternative works in all media, libraries can acquire value beyond the actual materials costs: new ideas, information ignored by commercial interests, unpublicized exciting artists, works of regional interest, minority press, materials in daring or experimental forms. All of these are likely to be considered unprofitable by large publishers.

CCLM News. 1982. q. $5. Lenora Champagne, ed. Coordinating Council of Literary magazines, 2 Park Ave., New York, NY 10016. ISSN 0273–3315. The idea that the arts should be supported by the people (through taxes) was a popular one in the late 1960, and in 1968 the Coordinating Council of Literary Magazines (CCLM) was established as an agency for funneling public monies to little magazines. Most of the early funding came from the National Endowment for the Arts. (NEA). The “salad days” of the 1960s, however, eventually gave way to—“Reaganomics”—which espouses a free‐market philosophy and support of the arts as the purview of the rich. In 1983, the CCLM received no NEA funds for its grants program and had to turn to private funds to support literary magazine publishing.

The purpose of this paper is to explore intersectionality as accomplished in interaction, and particularly national difference as a component of intersectionality.

The authors use ethnographic, shadowing methods to examine intersectionality in-depth and developed vignettes to illuminate the experience of intersectionality.

National difference mitigated the common assumption in scientific work that tenure and education are the most important markers of acceptance and collegiality. Moreover, national difference was a more prominent driving occupational discourse in scientific work than gender.

The data were limited in scope, though the authors see this as a necessity for generating in-depth intersectional data. Implications question the prominence of gender and (domestic) race/gender as “the” driving discourses of difference in much scholarship and offer a new view into how organizing around identity happens. Specifically, the authors develop “intersectional pairs” to understand the paradoxes of intersectionality, and as comprising a larger, woven experience of “intersectional netting.”

This research draws critical attention to how assumptions regarding national difference shape workplace experiences, in an era of intensified global migration and immigration debates.

The study foregrounds the negotiation of national difference in US workplaces, and focusses on how organization around said difference happens interactively in communication.

Citizens are substantial stakeholders in every e-government system, thus their willingness to use and ability to access the system are critical. Unequal access and information and communication technology usage, which is known as digital divide, however has been identified as one of the major obstacles to the implementation of e-government system. As digital divide inhibits citizen’s acceptance to e-government, it should be overcome despite the lack of deep theoretical understanding on this issue. This research aimed to investigate the digital divide and its direct impact on e-government system success of local governments in Indonesia as well as indirect impact through the mediation role of trust. In order to get a comprehensive understanding of digital divide, this study introduced a new type of digital divide, the innovativeness divide.

The research problems were approached by applying two-stage sequential mixed method research approach comprising of both qualitative and quantitative studies. In the first phase, an initial research model was proposed based on a literature review. Semi-structured interview with 12 users of e-government systems was then conducted to explore and enhance this initial research model. Data collected in this phase were analyzed with a two-stage content analysis approach and the initial model was then amended based on the findings. As a result, a comprehensive research model with 16 hypotheses was proposed for examination in the second phase.

In the second phase, quantitative method was applied. A questionnaire was developed based on findings in the first phase. A pilot study was conducted to refine the questionnaire, which was then distributed in a national survey resulting in 237 useable responses. Data collected in this phase were analyzed using Partial Least Square based Structural Equation Modeling.

The results of quantitative analysis confirmed 13 hypotheses. All direct influences of the variables of digital divide on e-government system success were supported. The mediating effects of trust in e-government in the relationship between capability divide and e-government system success as well as in the relationship between innovativeness divide and e-government system success were supported, but was rejected in the relationship between access divide and e-government system success. Furthermore, the results supported the moderating effects of demographic variables of age, residential place, and education.

This research has both theoretical and practical contributions. The study contributes to the developments of literature on digital divide and e-government by providing a more comprehensive framework, and also to the implementation of e-government by local governments and the improvement of e-government Readiness Index of Indonesia.