Monthly Archives: October 2011
Occupy Libraries: Guerrilla Librarianship for the People
What is Guerrilla Librarianship? Guerrilla librarianship involves building and maintaining libraries directly where people and the need for information intersect. It can mean building them on a beach, in a bar, or at an occupation. Guerrilla libraries exist for many … Continue reading
Filed under Mandy, OccupyLibraries
URGENT: People’s Library Under Siege
UPDATE 5:12pm: Latest update is that the police came to remove our tent, folks resisted, but the police insisted. The books are fine, the library’s fine. Thank you all for your support and solidarity! … URGENT CALL FOR ACTION. We’re … Continue reading
Filed under Announcements
Occupied Wall Street Journal: Online
The Occupied Wall Street Journal, the un-official newspaper of Occupy Wall Street, has launched their online version of the journal at occupiedmedia.com. All issues are available for download and all current articles can be read on the site. We are also … Continue reading
Filed under Announcements, Media, Michael, OWS Journal
I would prefer not to.
Last weekend I scored a tote bag from Melville House Books emblazoned with the words, “I would prefer not to,” the famous refrain from Melville’s 1853 story, “Bartleby, the Scrivener: a Story of Wall-Street.” I am loath to festoon myself … Continue reading
Filed under Catalog, Literature, Michele, OccupyLibraries, Scholarship
Solidarity with Oakland!
The Oscar Grant Plaza Gazette Tuesday, October 25, 2011 Day 16 THIS IS WHAT A POLICE STATE LOOKS LIKE Starting at about 4:45am this morning, Tuesday, October 25, approximately 500 police in riot gear attacked and destroyed the Occupy Oakland encampment at … Continue reading
Filed under #OccupyOakland, Announcements, Solidarity, Stephen
missed connections
Somebody loves us & wrote us a note on Craigslist in the missed connections section. We’re all such hotties I can’t guess who it’s meant for, but thanks for posting! We (probably) love you too & we’re (almost) all shameless … Continue reading
Filed under Betsy, Solidarity
Librarianing Theory
We all like theory around here, right? That’s what draws many of us to the library — the dusty ideas in dustier books; considering Simone de Beauvoir to be light reading (it wasn’t in the original French, ok?); spouting off … Continue reading
Filed under Jaime, Process, Reference, Scholarship
Allen Ginsberg collection at the People’s Library
We now have an Allen Ginsberg collection in the People’s Library. Thanks so much, Simon & Peter for the generous donations!
All Languages are Needed for the Poetry Anthology
The Occupy Wall St. Poetry Anthology is blossoming! Yesterday Patti Smith came to the People’s Library. She dropped off about ten copies of Just Kids and signed them and I showed her the poetry anthology and she liked it and … Continue reading
Filed under Announcements, Poetry, Stephen
Occupied Wall Street Journal #3
With a front page article about the People’s Library.
Filed under Announcements, Mandy, OWS Journal
State of affairs
A quiet moment in The People’s Library, just past midnight October 23, 2011
Filed under Michael, Photographs
Occupy Wall St. Poetry Update
My name is Stephen Boyer! I’m a librarian at the People’s Library, I moved in full-time a couple weeks ago. I’ve been insanely busy getting the Occupy Wall St. Poetry Anthology off the ground and the WiFi here has been … Continue reading
Filed under Announcements, OccupyLibraries, Poetry, Stephen, Video
10/22/11 Meeting Minutes
Following are the meeting minutes for the October 22nd Library Working Group Meeting. The agenda items are listed first, and the minutes are after the fold (click “continue reading” to see the minutes in full). Finances, expenditures, and internal procedures … Continue reading
Filed under Meeting Minutes, Michael, Process, Working Group Meeting
“Information is Liberation”: A People’s Librarian’s Thoughts on the Library at #OWS
In the midst of the singing, the chanting, the debating of Liberty Plaza, a library has bloomed. Stocked with donations and staffed by volunteers, it sits ready and waiting to offer the printed word to all who can read. Occupy … Continue reading
Filed under Mandy, OccupyLibraries, Radical Reference
“. . . and Beyond”
I’m thrilled that the New York Times covered the opening of #OccupyBoston’s library. It’s an important story, worth being written about – in fact we wrote about it back when it happened. What I can’t figure out is how the … Continue reading
Filed under #OccupyBoston, Announcements, Media, Michael, Solidarity
“Which three books would you have taken?”
Since I began working at the #OccupyWallStreet library three weeks ago, I haven’t been able to stop thinking about “The Time Machine” by H.G. Wells and a specific scene in the 1960 film inspired by the book. *Spoiler here* In the … Continue reading
Filed under Michael, OccupyLibraries, Reference, Technology, Time Travel
#OccupyTheory
Dear Occupiers and supporters: I am currently organizing a project to bring together articles from political philosophers, ethicists, and other related theorists into a book which will be printed and delivered directly to #Occupations nationwide. The working title is “#OccupyTheory,” … Continue reading
Filed under Announcements, Michael, Scholarship
