Madison, WI-3.12. 2011: "Librarians! United! Will never be divided!"

Sharon McQueen writes in Library Journal " Wisconsin Librarians' March Merges with Tractorcade" :
A third librarians' march took place on March 12 during what has been a month of daily protests at Wisconsin's State Capitol.
Participating:

Timothy Ericson, past president of the Society of American Archivists (SAA), flew to Wisconsin from Phoenix to participate in the rally for the Wisconsin 14 with his wife, Vallie, a former Wisconsin public school teacher.

American Library Association past president Michael Gorman drafted new lyrics for "I Dreamed I Saw Joe Hill Last Night," entitled "Scott Walker's Nightmare."

Five past presidents of the Wisconsin Library Association (WLA): Alberto Herrera, Terry Danson, Jane Pearlmutter, Nancy McClements, and Paul Nelson.

Christine Jenkins, UW-Madison alumna and associate professor of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Graduate School of Library and Information Science

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Melissa Moll, UW-Madison student, School of Library & Information Studies (SLIS)

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Mark Beatty, librarian of the Wisconsin Library Services (WiLS)

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Allison Kaplan, faculty associate, UW-Madison, SLIS

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retired librarian Jean Casper

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John Elliott, cataloger at Edgewood College in Madison

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Sheila Leary, director of the University of Wisconsin Press.

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