Urban Librarians Unite stands with the Miami Coalition to Save Our Libraries. The current funding proposal for Miami Libraries is wholly inadequate to fund and staff a library for a major city American urban center. Miami is one of the great cities of the world, its residents deserve a world class library system. The plan … Read more
Urban Librarians Unite is calling for volunteers! We have lots of programs in play right now and lots of chances for people to step up and step out for libraries. Instead of doing a big bulk “we need help” call we have some specific projects that we would like to have people sign up for. … Read more
Thank you so much to everyone who has been so wonderful in supporting our presentation at SXSW. We are incredibly excited about this event, excited, nervous, a wee bit overwhelmed, but mostly excited. We are already getting some good press and even wrote a shiny new manifesto for the occasion. We are going to not … Read more
Hello from the quiet profession. Hello to all you beautiful dreamers, you benders of time and space, you visionaries of the bright technological future. We love your leaps forward, we love the things you have made possible and we love you for the barriers you will lift away in the days to come. We welcome … Read more
Urban Librarians Unite supports the decision to sell limited library properties to address the Capital Budget shortfall. We see this as a difficult decision and a last ditch remedy to a problem that has been decades in the making. This problem has gotten so bad that real solutions must be found. While there is still … Read more
(Of course, we will all totally be this classy!) Yeah that is right: archery tag. It is perfectly safe, perfectly fun, and a perfectly great way to liven up your October. It is pretty much like the name says: dodgeball with bow and arrow. Come run around like an idiot, meet some fellow ULU-ans and … Read more
Last week the Wall Street Journal published an article detailing how many NYC schools are in violation of state regulations requiring a school librarians in each secondary school. It was quickly covered by other outlets as well. Wall Street Journal NY1 The Atlantic Epoch Times The NYC DOE has certified school librarians in only half … Read more
Candidate Name Christine Quinn In your opinion, what is the role of the library in the City? The only thing I ever wanted to do was be involved in politics and government—I attribute this almost exclusively to the library at my parish elementary school, St. Patrick’s. It contained a section on biographies of political people, … Read more
Urban Librarians Unite will be exhibiting as part of the DUMBO Arts Festival in September and we couldn’t be more pleased about it. We will be showing one of our Mini Libraries and setting up a VLB cart next to it as well as doing pop up blanket storytime in the shadow of the Brooklyn … Read more
Urban Librarians Unite has had an incredible year. We have gone from our traditional role of library advocacy and moved into year round programming and professional development. There is even a chapter on the west coast, ULU Bay Area. We were able to respond very directly to Hurricane Sandy and provide disaster relief to communities … Read more
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