Elaine Harger
Elaine Harger | |
|---|---|
 Elaine at an American Library Association conference | |
| Born | February 16, 1956 |
| Alma mater | Columbia University (MLS) |
| Occupation | Librarian |
Elaine Harger is an American librarian. She was the first recipient of the Herb Biblo Outstanding Leadership Award for Social Justice and Equality in 2022.[1]
Harger is the co-founder (with Mark Rosenzweig and Elliot Shore) of the Progressive Librarians Guild organized in 1989, and was on the editorial committee of their publication, Progressive Librarian. She was managing editor for all 47 issues.[2][3] She wrote many editorial and articles for the journal including "Why PLG? Why paper? Why bridge generations?"[4] and "Conscience v. Political Expediency at ALA."[5]
In the early 1990s she co-wrote a column Talkin' Union with Mark Rosenzweig for Library Journal. She has been a member of the American Library Association and the Social Responsibilities Round Table of ALA for 35 years.[1] She served on ALA Council as an elected at-large member and served as co-chair of the ALA/AFL-CIO Joint Committee on Library Services to Labor Groups.[1] She is the author of the book Which Side Are You On? Seven Social Responsibility Debates in American Librarianship, 1990-2015.[2]
Harger's first professional librarian job was at the Harry Van Arsdale, Jr. School of Labor Studies, a branch of Empire State College in New York City where she was also the union representative to the United University Professions-American Federation of Teachers from 1989 to 1995.[1][6] While there she co-authored the Bibliography of the Works of Philip Sheldon Foner.[7] She also worked as head librarian at the New Jersey Historical Society and then shifted into public education as a school librarian.[1] She was responsible for the opening of a library at PS/IS 176, the W. Haywood Burns School in New York City.[1] After a move to the West Coast, she became a librarian at Mount Si High School in Snoqualmie, Washington, Meadowdale Elementary in Lynnwood, Washington, and Washington Middle School in Seattle, Washington.[1] She is now retired and living in Spokane, Washington.[1]
Harger was born to Richard Harger and Lois Marie Ensign, one of five children.[8]
References[edit]
- ^ a b c d e f g h "Elaine Harger named first recipient of SRRT's Herb Biblo Outstanding Leadership Award for Social Justice". ALA News and Press Center. 2022-02-08. Archived from the original on 2022-02-13. Retrieved 2022-02-11.
- ^ a b Litwin, Rory (2016-07-21). "Interview with Elaine Harger, PLG co-founder". Litwin Books & Library Juice Press. Archived from the original on 2022-02-13. Retrieved 2022-02-12.
- ^ Kagan, Alfred (2022-01-14). "Progressive library organizations : a worldwide history". Internet Archive. Retrieved 2022-02-12.
- ^ Harger, Elaine. "Why PLG? Why paper? Why bridge generations?" Progressive Librarian 45 Winter 2016/2017
- ^ Harger, Elaine."Conscience v. Political Expediency at ALA." Progressive Librarian 41 Fall 2013.
- ^ "Guide to the Elaine Harger and John Bennett Collection on the Harry Van Arsdale Jr. School of Labor Studies WAG.143". Digital Library Technology Services – A unit of NYU Libraries and NYU IT. Archived from the original on 2022-02-13. Retrieved 2022-02-12.
- ^ Harger, E. (1995). Bibliography of the Works of Philip Sheldon Foner. Empire State College/SUNY. Retrieved 2022-02-12.
- ^ "Richard "Dick" Harger". Spokesman Review. Spokane Washington. December 7, 2016. p. B7. Retrieved 12 February 2022.