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
Introducing the Tiebrary
Hey, pirates, did you know you will shortly be able to borrow a tie from the library? You heard that right! From friend of the Shipwreck Lauren, of Urban Librarians … 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
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
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
A win for Google? Yes. A win for you? Maybe…
With all of the things that Google is involved with, it can be easy to forget that they have also digitally scanned somewhere in the range of 20 million books. … Continue reading
Banned Books and Budget Cuts
The honor “Banned Book” does for a book what a leather jacket did for James Dean. Before it was handsome, now it’s handsome with a vaguely rebellious air. For those … Continue reading
Bow-tie-wearing Russian librarian cat
Bow-tie-wearing Russian librarian cat. You’re welcome. (link in post)
From Occupy to Preoccupied
Unsuccessful social movements are doomed to become fodder for academics and cause for continual quibbling amongst those who had once participated. Granted, the very question of “success” (and therefore “unsuccessful”) … Continue reading
So, you’re going to library school…
With summer reaching its conclusion many are eyeing their backpacks in anticipation of the soon to start school year. It is a time of excitement mixed with trepidation for those … Continue reading
Audiobook/speakwrite
This summer has been consumed by completely reorganizing and recataloging my library, and for over a month I’ve been slogging through the part of the process that requires printing out … Continue reading
Will Technological Critique Emerge with Emerging Technology Librarians?
Despite what seems to be a constant chorus foretelling their doom, libraries hold steady. This is not to say that libraries are not shaken by the storms of technological change … Continue reading
Hammer beats Scissors? Library Cuts and Stack Demolition
One of the peculiar comforts of modern living is that no matter where you look things are suitably messed up that there is work to be done. While this lulls … Continue reading
NYC Libraries Survive Another Round
Every year there comes a moment where librarians and library allies pull on the sackcloth and take to the streets to wail to the heavens that “The End [of that … Continue reading
News roundup: mostly Europe
Hiya, castaways. Things are busy across the pond. It was a rough day yesterday at Taksim Square in Istanbul. Despite assurances from local government to the contrary, police spent the … Continue reading
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