Year: 2011

When the police cleared Zuccotti Park in the dark of the night they destroyed the People’s Library along with all the other infrastructure that was in place. Thousands of books were lost or damaged, laptops were smashed, and archival materials were lost. The intrepid library working group got right back on the stick and immediately … Read more

November 3, 2011 In response to the flooding and damage to libraries in Upstate New York by Tropical Storms Irene and Lee, Urban Librarians Unite hosted a Library Carnival Fundraiser at the NYLA Annual Conference.  We were lucky enough to be able to raise $1000 for the NYLA Disaster Relief Fund. A big thanks to everyone who … Read more

  [slickr-flickr tag=”OWS library” items=”9″] At 1AM on Tuesday November 15th police forces converged on and cleared Zucotti Park in the interest of “public safety”. The choice of time is telling, the Mayor’s office has said that it was to “minimize disruptions for the neighborhood” and in the interest of the safety of the protesters … Read more

Thanks for dropping by urbanlibrariansunite.org. We would keep this more up to date, but we’re all super busy working to save New York City library budgets. You can find us at Save NYC Libraries until the budget gets passed. Thanks!

ULU will be in Manhattan in February and we really hope to see you there. We will be drinking and eating cheap food and talking libraries and advocacy as usual. It looks like it is going to be another interesting spring and we would love to have as many voices at the table as possible. … Read more