Progressive Library Organizations Update 2018-2023

Abstract

This is the second update article for my book, Progressive Library Organizations: A Worldwide History (Jefferson, NC: McFarland, 2015). The first update article was for 2013-2017 and was published in this journal in volume 4 (2018). This second update includes all the organizations, or their successor organizations covered in the book except for Library and Information Workers Organization of South Africa (LIWO) which folded in 2000. The organizations covered are: Bibliotek i Samhälle (BiS) of Sweden (functioning at reduced capacity), AK Kritische Bibliothek (Kribiblio) of Germany (disbanded in 2022), Verein kritischer Bibliothekarinnen und Bibliothekare (KRIBIBI) of Austria (disbanded in 2022), Information for Social Change of the United Kingdom (in hiatus), Social Responsibilities Round Table of the American Library Association (SRRT) of the United States (functioning as usual), and Progressive Librarians Guild (PLG) of the United States (in hiatus). This description and analysis is based on research done in 2024, and includes new interviews in Sweden, documents from websites, email correspondence, and much personal experience. I used Google Translate for documents in Swedish and German.