Libraries as Grammar Schools of the Commons

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Joe Clement shares commentary and news on the political significance of libraries, examining the material context of social attacks on them and the utopian potential of their sharing ethos.  We hear audio from Mariame Kaba on the podcast Death Panel speaking to how libraries can help us rediscover the grammar of commoning and belonging to one another. Also Shawn Vulliez of the Seriously Wrong podcast speaks as a guest on the LibraryPunk podcast about how the at once practical and yet ideal principle of usufruct, or free use of abundantly circulating public goods, can underpin a “library socialist” solution to the ecological and social crises bearing down on us today.

Listen to Joe's 3/25 segment about Fort Vancouver Regional Library workers still fighting for living wages. Support them by 1. Signing their Petition 2. Emailing the Board of Trustees: trustees@fvrl.org 3. Attending a Board Meeting

Ready, Set, Library / American Library Association / 2024

Notes of a Library Worker / Viewpoint Magazine / Ben Webster (2013)

ALA report says book challenges soared in 2023 / NPR / Tovia Smith (2024)

Huntsville Library Privatized After Pride Display / Book Riot / Kelly Jensen (2022)

Joint statement by Oregon Library Association and Oregon Association of School Libraries condemning Portland Public School cuts to libraries. The school board meets at the Mathew Prophet Education Center 401 N Dixon St Portland, OR 97227

Attacks on Libraries are Attacks on Labor / Truth Out / Jaime Taylor (2022)

For The People: a leftist library project

On usufruct, the irreducible minimum, and Complimentarity / from "The Ecology of Freedom" / Murray Bookchin (1982)

ALA Statement committing Sustainability to Core Librarianship Values (2019)

Berkeley Public Library Tool Library

Libraries can save the planet through SHARE Berkeley / Berkeleyside / Sophie Hahn (2024)

City Council approves Berkeley Public Library’s first Share Hub / The Daily Californian / Summer Choi (2024)

Community tool libraries in the Portland OR Area:

Public libraries with libraries of things and expansive collections near Portland, OR. Anyone with a library card in the metropolitan free service area can get cards in any of these other systems and check their things out.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 
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