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There is a brand new force in library advocacy and those of who fight in the budget trenches are ecstatic that it is here. The EveryLibrary PAC combines grassroots guts with steely-eyed professional political chops. It is a new tool on the library advocacy workbench and we fully expect it to the impact of a … Read more

Come out for a celebration of underground literature at a Bookeasy in Brooklyn, on Sunday September 30th from 7-midnight at the Way Station on 683 Washington Ave. There will be live music, dancing, lively discussion, and readings from banned and censored books. As long as there have been books there have been people who sought … Read more

Urban Librarians Unite gets support from all kinds of places and some of our friends have forwarded us this. It appears to be a manifesto of sorts, seemingly of an illuminati-like anti-book element. We thought it was pretty heady stuff really and wanted to draw attention to it as we come up on this year’s … Read more

  Greetings ULU readers! The Desk Set is grateful for the opportunity to repost the invitation below. Hope, hope, hope to see you at Public Assembly on Wednesday, September 19th for our upcoming event featuring some extraordinary women. Originally posted here on 9/6/2012. 2012: Year of the Dragon, Year of 30th Olympiad, and year of … Read more

It’s been a crazy exhausting exciting year. We won (woot!) no libraries closed, nobody laid off, five days of library service across the city still. Go Team! Now we need your help in a very very practical way. We need your help to pay our rent (pretty please). No ULU does not have an office but … Read more

Epic Win #1 YAY! The NYC Council and Mayor Bloomberg have worked out a deal that restores 90 of the 96.4 million dollar proposed cut! This restoration guarantees at least 5 day service and no layoffs, so who has two thumbs and is taking a few weeks to chill before she starts talking about how awesome … Read more

This year’s 24 Hour Read In was amazing and exhausting. Hundreds of volunteers, authors, readers, listeners, volunteers, and supporters came out in the course of the day to show their support for public libraries in New York City. This support is crucial as we continue to push back against potentially devastating budget cuts. Should these … Read more

Once more the city budget has hacked at the city library budgets and once again we will push back to get the money reinstated. It is euphemistically called “the budget dance” and we make a lot of very easy quips and jokes about it. They almost write themselves. There are those who are confident in … Read more

On March 6th we spent the day running around the Legislative Office Building in Albany doing guerilla mobile reference. Granted it was mostly “Where’s my meeting?” and “Where’s the bathroom?” But we did get some real stumpers, like “What is Adrenocorticotropic hormone?” (For your reference, this is Adrenocorticotropic hormone) Anyhoo, you can still contact your … Read more