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Clicking on the title of an item takes you to the bibliographic page for the resource, which typically also contains an abstract, a link to the full text if it is available online, and links to related topics in the subject index. You can find items through the Title, Author, Subject, Chronological, Dewey, Library of Congress, and Format indexes.
Particularly recommended items are flagged with a red Connexions logo:

  1. Alternative Library Literature 1986-1987
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1988
    An anthology of writings about alternative literature and sources and producers of alternative literature, as well as about libraries themselves, and about what is happening within libraries to make them more relevant and activist in their orientation.
  2. Alternative Materials in Libraries
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1982
    Handbook with extensive bibliographies. What, where, how and why to buy Alternative and small press publications for libraries - also useful for individuals and bookstore.
  3. Amicus
    Resource Type: Internet WWW site
    Service giving search access to over 30 million records from 1,300 Canadian libraries including Library and Archives Canada. Enables users to check library holdings, loan policies, homepages, etc., and save and e-mail search results to create bibliographies.
  4. Banned Books
    Informal Notes on Some Books Banned for Various Reasons
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1970
  5. Challenged Books List
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 2004
    A partial list of books subjected to censorship attempts in Canada from the early 1980s to 2003.
  6. The Common Good
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1998
    Interviews with Noam Chomsky on the U.S. and the world.
  7. Double Fold
    Libraries and the Assault on Paper
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 2001
    Double Fold examines the preservation of books in United States libraries over the past 50 years. It details the libraries "war" on books -- the alarming lack of preservation and the destruction of hundreds of thousands of irreplacable bound originals including 19th-century illustrated dailies. He chronicles the attempts to find ways of preserving books from both the ravages of time and the librairies' lack of shelf space. He also explains how librairies use the spectre of disintegrating books as part of their fundraising stategy. Baker offers aternative solutions to these problems. His ultimate and pesuasive plea is for librairies to stop "executing" the originals.
  8. Libraries, Erotica & Pornography
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1991
  9. Library and Archives Canada
    Resource Type: Internet WWW site
    Information about the collections and services of Library and Archives Canada, and direct access to a wide range of online resources.
  10. Library and Archives Canada / Canadian Acquisitions Division and Legal Deposit Office
    Resource Type: Organization
    All Canadian periodicals are required to file two copies of each issues with the National Library.
  11. The Library at Night
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 2006
    The Library at Night tells the story of the important role of libraries in human civilization and how books are an essential link between the individual and the world.
  12. Library Information Servers via WWW
    Resource Type: Internet WWW site
    Links to library catalogues on the World Wide Web.
  13. Library of Congress World Wide Web site
    Resource Type: Internet WWW site
    A gateway to massive amounts of information. Main site of the U.S. Library of Congress.
  14. Library Resources on the Internet
    Resource Type: Internet WWW site
  15. The Red Menace 
    A libertarian socialist newsletter
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    First Published: 1975   Published: 1980
    Articles on topics such as socialism, Marxism, anarchism, work, popular education, organizing, wages for housework, Leninism, bureaucracy, hierarchy, jargon, prostitution, obscenity, science fiction, and terrorism.
  16. The Secret Museum
    Pornography in Modern Culture
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1988
  17. A Tale of Two Offices
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 1977
    Daily life and offices politics viewed through the experience of working in two libraries with very different management styles.
  18. Toronto Public Library Online
    Resource Type: Internet WWW site
    An on-line catalogue of more than one million books, serials, government documents, maps, scores, sound recordings and other materials. Extensive Canadiana and Toronto and Ontario local history sections. The library's Answerline provides responses to E-mail enquiries on basic factual questions which don't require in-depth research.
  19. Towns for People
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1992
  20. You Can't Read This
    Forbidden Books, Lost Writing, Mistranslations, and Codes
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 2006
    Written for children ages ten and up, You Can’t Read This explores the development of alphabets, the decoding of ancient languages, and censorship in Ancient Rome and modern America.

Experts on Libraries in the Sources Directory

  1. Saskatchewan Institute of Applied Science and Technology
  2. Simon Fraser University
  3. World Digital Library


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Mission Connexions exists to support individuals and groups working for freedom and social justice. We work to maintain and make available a record of the theory and practice of people struggling against oppression and for social change. We believe that the more we know about the struggles, victories, and defeats of the past, and about those who took part in them, the better equipped we will be to bring a new world into being. Connexions maintains a physical archive of books and documents, and is engaged in an ongoing project to build and expand an indexed digital archive of documents. We try to feature a wide variety of resources reflecting a diversity of viewpoints and approaches to social change within our overall mandate of support for democracy, civil liberties, freedom of expression, universal human rights, secularism, equality, economic justice, environmental responsibility, and the creation and preservation of community. We are internationalist in our orientation, but as a Canadian-based project we feature an especially extensive collection of Canadian documents and profiles of Canadian activist organizations.