Occupy Wall Street Library

01/05/2018

http://www.truth-out.org/opinion/item/43099-libraries-under-capitalism-the-enclosure-of-the-literary-commons

Libraries are shifting from service to profit models.

08/08/2017

Laurie Penny thinks she "surreptitiously stole" a book from the library? no darling, that's not how it works. it was meant for you. with love from the librarians

The author of

12/01/2016

https://www.theguardian.com/books/2016/nov/30/library-user-data-government-surveillance-donald-trump

New York Public Library changed its data retention policies, and the American Library Association apologized for ‘normalizing’ the Trump administration

11/12/2016

http://www.latimes.com/books/jacketcopy/la-ca-jc-kipen-essay-20161110-story.html

Even now, in this riven country, after this whole entropically hideous year, most Americans still agree on at least one institution. Mercifully, it’s the one that may just save us: the public library.

09/18/2016

Happy
https://librarianshipwreck.wordpress.com/2014/04/16/librarian-is-my-occupation-a-history-of-the-peoples-library-of-occupy-wall-street/

As we’ve mentioned several times (sorry [not really]), your dear co-captains wrote a chapter in the recently-released book Informed agitation : library and information skills in social moveme…

02/26/2016

Library shout out in Entropy
http://entropymag.org/let-fall-in-drops-upon-on-some-ancient-wisdoms/

Late in the summer of 2015, it was widely reported that ISIS had demolished the remains of the Temple of Bel in the ancient Syrian city of Palmyra. It was a place at which innumerable histories had been overlaid on one another, where ancient worship had been conducted according to Aramean, Arab, and…

01/13/2016

US libraries are doing something even the most security-conscious private firm would never dream of: deleting sensitive information in order to protect users

12/19/2015

http://www.theguardian.com/books/2015/dec/17/librarians-take-legal-fight-against-library-closures-to-government

Department for Culture, Media and Sport challenged over its failure to carry out legal duty of providing quality public library services

08/31/2015

from Michael:
http://discardstudies.com/2015/08/30/the-dregs-of-the-library-trashing-the-occupy-wall-street-library/

When our library at Occupy Wall Street was destroyed, we used our beloved books tactically, as evidence, and then used the trauma of destruction to make a case for the illegitimacy of the violence ...

07/01/2015

http://www.yongestreetmedia.ca/features/humanbooks1208.aspx

Even as it's entered the digital age, the Toronto Public Library has kept real live people at the heart of its enterprises, keeping the world's biggest library system busy and an crucial part of everyday Toronto life.

04/01/2015

Please take & share this short survey on poetry, protest, Occupy & Gezi Park! You will be helping a Comparative Literature student at İstanbul Bilgi University, Turkey.

03/11/2015

Where are they now? A call for your stories of checked-out OWS Library Books. Seen one? Let us know!

Do you remember the OWS Library books? What they looked like. How we labelled them. How they were organized? Perhaps you picked one up and saw that we had written "OWSL" across each side with a per...