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POETRY MONTH~ OWS Poetry Anthology @ Jefferson Market Library3 comments

Stephen Boyer wrote 1 year ago: For the month of April, the Jefferson Market Library is holding an exhibition of poems from the OWS … more →

Tags: Photographs, Art, Stephen, Poetry, Party Time!, occupy wall street poetry anthology, Occupy Poetry, Lee Ann Brown, Jefferson Market Library

Occupy the OccuPAST: Echoes of Dissidence in the UPS Underground Newspaper Collection (pt. 4 of 4)1 comment

Betsy wrote 1 year ago: Today we have the final installment of Laurie Charnigo’s essay Occupy the OccuPAST: Echoes of … more →

Tags: Betsy, Digital Archive, Education, Ephemera, Literature, Reference, Scholarship, Black Panther Party, CounterCulture

Protest History: Underground Press Syndicate7 comments

Betsy wrote 1 year ago: We are lucky enough to have a series of guest blog posts from Laurie Charnigo, a Reference Librarian … more →

Tags: Betsy, Ephemera, Reference, Scholarship, CounterCulture, East Village Other, laurie charnigo, Preservation, Tom Forcade

Join Us in Supporting the Students and Teachers of Tucson Unified School District7 comments

Mandy Henk wrote 1 year ago: Have you wanted to get involved with Occupy, but not really a marcher? Too far away from an Occupati … more →

Tags: Announcements, Solidarity, Mandy, Donations, Emergency actions, Direct action, free speech, occupytucson

People's Library presentation at ALA Midwinter4 comments

Betsy wrote 1 year ago: Following is the text presented at the American Library Association’s Midwinter Conference Sat … more →

Tags: 11/15 Eviction, Betsy, danny, Jaime, Mandy, NYPL, Scholarship, Zach, ALA

People's Library at American Library Association conference6 comments

Betsy wrote 1 year ago: A few of us will be doing a panel presentation about our library, radical librarianship, the commons … more →

Tags: Announcements, Betsy, danny, Direct action, Jaime, Mandy, Radical Reference, Solidarity, ALA

Fun!4 comments

oneofthelibrarians wrote 1 year ago: A couple weeks ago we got invited to the librarian social event of the season, Biblioball.  Aren … more →

Tags: Photographs, Jaime

Thanksgiving At Occupy Tampa by Bill Livsey

Stephen Boyer wrote 1 year ago: The night before Thanksgiving at Occupy Tampa a generous amount of food was donated by a local churc … more →

Tags: Announcements, Time Travel, #OccupyTampa, occupy tampa, Thanksgiving, Bill Livsey, Curtis Hixon Park, Tampa Police Department, confiscating books

ALA President calls dissolution of People's Library "Unacceptable"2 comments

Mandy Henk wrote 1 year ago: The ALA has released a statement expressing “alarm” at the seizure of the People’s … more →

Tags: Announcements, Solidarity, Mandy

ReOccupy Writers Stand in Solidarity with OWS Tonight at 6:0012 comments

Mandy Henk wrote 1 year ago: Tonight at 6:00 writers and readers from across New York City will gather in Liberty Plaza to reoccu … more →

Tags: Solidarity, Mandy, Donations, Emergency actions, Literature

Your Local People's Library Branch7 comments

michael wrote 1 year ago: Would you like to open a People’s Library branch in your neighborhood? WNYC’s Brian Lehe … more →

Tags: Michael, privatization, Process, Pop

Occupy Libraries in the News1 comment

michael wrote 1 year ago: Occupy Mobile has a library! But they’re facing a deadline set by the Mayor to vacate Spanish … more →

Tags: Michael, media, #occupyDC, #OccupyMobile, NYPL

Occupy Libraries: Guerrilla Librarianship for the People18 comments

Mandy Henk wrote 1 year ago: What is Guerrilla Librarianship? Guerrilla librarianship involves building and maintaining libraries … more →

Tags: Mandy

I would prefer not to.9 comments

michelehardesty wrote 1 year ago: Last weekend I scored a tote bag from Melville House Books emblazoned with the words, “I would prefe … more →

Tags: Catalog, Literature, Michele, Scholarship

Occupy Wall St. Poetry Update21 comments

Stephen Boyer wrote 1 year ago: My name is Stephen Boyer! I’m a librarian at the People’s Library, I moved in full-time … more →

Tags: Announcements, Video, Stephen, Poetry, occupy wall street poetry anthology, Anne Waldman, Michael McClure, Adrienne Rich, Allen Ginsberg

“Information is Liberation”: A People’s Librarian’s Thoughts on the Library at #OWS2 comments

Mandy Henk wrote 1 year ago: In the midst of the singing, the chanting, the debating of Liberty Plaza, a library has bloomed. Sto … more →

Tags: Mandy, Radical Reference

"Which three books would you have taken?"12 comments

michael wrote 1 year ago: Since I began working at the #OccupyWallStreet library three weeks ago, I haven’t been able to … more →

Tags: Reference, Michael, technology, Time Travel

Updated Solidarity Letter from Acampada Sol Library2 comments

michael wrote 1 year ago: People’s Library at Zuccotti Square – Occupy Wall Street Hi, People’s Library! Cheers fr … more →

Tags: Solidarity, 15m

Letter of Solidarity from Acampada Sol Library, Madrid3 comments

michael wrote 1 year ago: Today we received this letter of solidarity from the public library of the spanish occupation of Pue … more →

Tags: Michael, Solidarity, 15m


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