Welcome to the blog for the library of the Occupy Wall Street movement – The People’s Library. We’re just getting this site up and running, if you’d like to join the effort, you can help by donating books, joining us at Liberty Plaza, volunteering to work shifts at the library or whatever you would like to contribute. Just let us know.
Incoming Books- Measure for Measure (Signet Classics) by William Shakespeare
- A Streetcar Named Desire by Tennessee Williams
- Pygmalion and My Fair Lady by George Bernard Shaw
- Hamlet by William Shakespeare
- Oedipus the King (Enriched Classics Edition) by Sophocles
- The Body and the Blood: The Holy Land at the Turn of a New Millennium: A Reporter's Journey by Charles M. Sennott
- Burn This: A Play by Lanford Wilson
- The Wiz (French's Musical Library) by Charlie Smalls
- The Great Legal Philosophers: Selected Readings in Jurisprudence by Clarence Morris
- Entsiklopediia banal'nostei: Sovetskaia povsednevnost': Kontury, simvoly, znaki by Nataliia Lebina
- Zero History by William Gibson
- Meditation: Achieving Inner Peace and Tranquility In Your Life (Little Books and CDs) by Brian Weiss
- The Golem: A New Translation of the Classic Play and Selected Short Stories by Joachim Neugroschel
- Well Then There Now by Juliana Spahr
- Seven Days in the Art World by Sarah Thornton
- A Game of Thrones (A Song of Ice and Fire, Book 1) by George R.R. Martin
- Electric Kool Aid Acid Test by Tom James Wolfe
- The Autobiography of Malcolm X: As Told to Alex Haley by Malcolm X
- The Balcony by Jean Genet
- A Whole New Mind: Why Right-Brainers Will Rule the Future by Daniel H. Pink
- Measure for Measure (Signet Classics) by William Shakespeare
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If I want to volunteer (i am available wednesday and thursday afternoons) should I just go on down and speak to somebody directly?
best,
Conrad
Just show up!
Bravo to Betsy and all of those bringing this library to fruition! I’m so proud to be a part of a profession that strives to put information freely into all people’s hands. An informed public is an empowered public. Your library is a truly fine example of our mission.
Some Radical Reference folks and I are hoping to come down sometime on Friday. Are there better/worse times for us to join y’all and see what we can do to help?
Hi Emily,
I’ll be there from about 6pm-9pm on Friday. Other folks might be there during the day.
-Janos
This is the availability schedule: https://www.google.com/calendar/embed?src=owspeopleslibrary%40gmail.com&ctz=America/New_York
We love to meet new collaborators face-to-face, but we are also encouraging folks to offer their help manning the station (keeping out the rain, marking/sorting books, answering questions, making new connections) at times when nobody is scheduled on the calendar. Most information on how things are typically done on the ground can be found on this website or in the Library Staff Documents box at the physical library itself.
Hi Jon, Thank you! Please do bring the books, we are glad to accept all donations. It would also be helpful, if you could bring them in plastic bins with lids – as the entire library is outdoors, so we need something to store them in and you have quite a lot of books here.
What kind of books are you looking for? I have all of these to donate: http://books.google.com/books?uid=104224739410736908252&as_coll=1001&source=gbs_lp_bookshelf_list
I might have given away a handful of those and not updated, but you get the idea – fiction, lefty non-fiction, a handful of textbooks. My roommates also want to donate books – but I don’t want to leave you all with an unwieldy pile of books no one wants for you to have to deal with! Please follow up via e-mail.
Thanks!
Beautiful, Michael! xoxo