Libraries Amid Protest

Download or read book Libraries Amid Protest written by Sherrin Frances and published by Studies in Print Culture and t. This book was released on 2020 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Part 1. Definition of a protest library -- Origins (BiblioSol, Madrid) -- Materiality and virtuality (BiblioSol, Madrid) -- Behavior in space (OWS People's Library, New York) -- Visual spectacle (OWS People's Library, New York) -- Library as a democratic institution (NYPL Central Library, New York) -- Part 2. Libraries and undercurrents -- Carnegie's influence (Biblioteca Popular, Oakland, CA) -- Library as social space (Biblioteca Popular, Oakland, CA) -- Borders and barricades (Gezi Park Library, Istanbul) -- A library without books (Maidan Library, Kiev) -- Lenin's influence (Library of Ukrainian Literature, Moscow) -- Part 3. Reinvention -- The new shape of space (BiblioDebout Paris) -- Phases of the protest library (BiblioDebout Lyon) -- Reinvention as collective (Freedom Square Library, Chicago) -- Circling back (BiblioSol reinvented as Tres Peces Tres, Madrid).