Occupy Wall Street Library

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

Libraries Under Capitalism: The Enclosure of the Literary Commons Libraries are shifting from service to profit models.

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

Laurie Penny’s Radical Empathy | Village Voice The author of

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

Libraries promise to destroy user data to avoid threat of government surveillance New York Public Library changed its data retention policies, and the American Library Association apologized for ‘normalizing’ the Trump administration

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

How to weather the Trump administration: Head to the library 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.

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

Librarian Is My Occupation: A History of the People’s 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…

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

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…

You are not what you read: librarians purge user data to protect privacy US libraries are doing something even the most security-conscious private firm would never dream of: deleting sensitive information in order to protect users

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

Librarians take legal battle 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

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

“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 ...

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

Always innovative Toronto Public Library lets us check out humans as well as books 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.

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.

POETRY AND OWS PROTESTS

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

No Due Date: Books of The People's Library 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...