The Laboratory or The Library?
Using social media has always involved a vague recognition that the platform (and the company behind it) will be using the user right back. Usually this understanding has involved a … Continue reading
To Do List
I’m told Holler If Ya Hear Me, the Broadway musical based on Tupac Shakur’s music, is very good, but it is closing Sunday after poor box office returns. If you’ll be … Continue reading
If You Want to See the Sharing Economy…Go to the Library
The value of sharing is one instilled in us from a young age: from the parental injunction to share with our siblings to the early socialization received in kindergarten. Sharing … Continue reading
Things You Should Sign Up For/CfP
The NYC Archives Unconference will be at Barnard on September 6, and you should definitely be part of that! Register or propose a session here. ESPECIALLY BECAUSE IT IS FREE. … Continue reading
To-Do List
On Thursday, June 5, is the Phase I opening of the Chachalu Tribal Museum & Cultural Center in Grand Ronde, Oregon. The opening ceremonies start at 4pm, with a tour … Continue reading
Modeling a Different World – The Library and PreFigurative Activism
From Madrid’s Puerta del Sol to Turkey’s Gezi Park to Occupy encampments across the USA and Canada to Egypt’s Tahrir Square to Ukraine’s Euromaidan protests in Kiev – libraries have … Continue reading
Google Glass in Libraries – Disruption or just Disruptive?
Libraries are highly technological places. From books to microfilm readers to computers – a library that is free of technology is an oxymoron. Granted, there is a difference between a … Continue reading
NYPL’s “Central Library” Plan goes Not as Planned
Construction work tends to be loud. This holds equally true when it comes to construction in libraries. Yet, sometimes the voices of opposition to planned construction can reach such a … Continue reading
Radical Resources for May Day (and every day)
What, you may ask, is the best thing to do with information? Share it of course! Thus, in honor of May Day – also known as International Workers’ Day – … Continue reading
Make Your Library the Protest
It is an exciting time to be a librarian. No, really. Whether it is a result of potentially positive changes or due to worrisome occurrences (budget cuts) libraries (and by … Continue reading
Librarian is Still My Occupation – Another Epilogue
When most people think of the People’s Library (from Occupy Wall Street) the image they conjure up is of the library in its heyday: those two months in the Fall … Continue reading
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 movements and beyond, … Continue reading
Books – Tools for Conviviality
Libraries are about much more than books. Granted, there are caveats to such a declaration. After all, there are rare book libraries, manuscript collections, and many types of libraries that … Continue reading
Tonight: Informed Agitation at Bluestockings
Tonight your dear co-captains, along with some of our brilliant friends and colleagues, will be at Bluestockings to speak about Informed agitation. We hope you will all come see us! … Continue reading
Money for censorship: CIPA, federal funding, and content blockers
In honor of EFF’s 404 Day, a day of action against internet censorship in libraries, a discussion about content filtering is in order. Libraries applying for and accepting certain kinds … Continue reading
It’s a Censorshipwreck!
Those who work in the library field, and those who love libraries, have become rather accustomed to hearing a certain droning argument about the impending obsolescence of libraries. Whether it … Continue reading
To Do List [updated]
Friends of the Shipwreck John & Molly Knefel are having the monthly Radio Dispatch Live! at Le Poisson Rouge on Wednesday, March 26 at 8pm. This month their guests are … Continue reading
Urban Librarians Conference – 2014
Last year the Urban Libraries Conference was an excellent event and this year…they’re doing it again. There’s still time to register for the “earlybird” price, which even includes breakfast. The … Continue reading
The Lucy Parsons Library – Opens Tonight!
Question: What’s even better than a great community space? Answer: a great community space with a library! And tonight (March 1, 2014) The Base (in Brooklyn) will be celebrating the … Continue reading
Self Help, Mutual Aid, Reference Services – A Sideways Glance
Imagine that you are busily working away when you find yourself approached by an individual with a demanding inquiry. The question may not seem particularly interesting to you or it … Continue reading
Informed Agitation
Interested in librarianship? Archives? Activism? That place where participation in social justice movements intersects with the library world? Well, we here at LibrarianShipwreck certainly are (as you might be able … Continue reading
Call for Papers – Archiving Activism and Activist Archiving
Looking for an academically reputable forum in which to (potentially) publish your thoughts on the (at times disreputable) activity of “Archiving Activism and Activist Archiving?” Now’s your chance…to submit an … Continue reading
Libraries – Destruction and Pillage (Canadian Edition)
Z659 is the Library of Congress subject heading for “Libraries – Destruction and Pillage.” The very fact that there is a subject heading for “Libraries – Destruction and Pillage” should … Continue reading
Grants, calls for things, etc.
The Barnard Library at Columbia is offering two grants of $2,500 each to researchers using its archives, zine library, or the Barnard Center for Research on Women. It may be … Continue reading
Call for…something
The library at Barnard wants to host an archives unconference! Cool! But not until next fall, so there’s plenty of time to get your fingers into that pie in the … Continue reading
What Will 2014 Bring for Libraries?
Libraries survived 2013. Libraries will also survive 2014. This is not to suggest that all libraries, and by extension those who work in them and care about them, had a … Continue reading
Reading Recommendations, Please
So, hey, out of all the books & articles & zines & whatnot in the universe, what might loosely fall under the heading of “radical librarianship” and is worth reading? … Continue reading
ALA COA Wants Comments
The Committee on Accreditation of the American Library Association is soliciting comments as it prepares to revise the standards by which it evaluates library schools. According to ALA’s press release, … Continue reading
Call for Proposals
The Luddbrarian sends me things. Yesterday it was a call for proposals. He’s probably bogged down somewhere under a pile of books and cat hair, so I will take the … Continue reading
Sharing is Caring
The days following Thanksgiving seem to be all nicknamed with things you can do with money now? I think yesterday was Giving Tuesday or something? I hear Monday was Cyber … Continue reading
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