NYC Public Library Action Network
Take Action
Letter to Mayoral Candidates
Send our letter to all the mayoral candidates demanding increased funding for our public libraries!
Put Pressure on City Council
Fill out this Google Form and we’ll follow up with a how-to guide on meeting with your City Council member to make sure they know about our demand.
Speak up at Your Community Board District Needs Hearing
Follow our How-To Guide to speak up at this once-per year opportunity to advocate for library needs at the hyperlocal level.
Our Core Values
To amplify, strengthen, and progress the futures of New York City’s three public library systems through community-led organizing, action, and increased funding.
We believe that
- Libraries are radical
- To pursue education and critical thought is a radical act.
- Public libraries are thus inherently political spaces: they provide
resources for people of all ages, backgrounds, and ways of life.
- Commons are the model for the future
- Public libraries are a model for the power of the public commons to
build the emancipatory and liberatory futures our communities
deserve.
- Public libraries are a model for the power of the public commons to
- Care and community are priorities
- NYC’s public libraries offer a model for how cities can educate, care
for, and provide sustainability for all people, regardless of financial
circumstances, race, disability, or legal status.
- NYC’s public libraries offer a model for how cities can educate, care
- Libraries must be decarceral
- Libraries must be anti-carceral to ensure that they are spaces for all
people.
- Libraries must be anti-carceral to ensure that they are spaces for all
- Abundance is the future
- We build more through abundance than austerity. An abundant
future is ours if we fight for it.
- We build more through abundance than austerity. An abundant
Public Library People’s Assemblies
NYC PLAN’s second Public Library People’s Assembly happened on Saturday, October 4th from 12:45pm-4:30pm at the New York Society for Ethical Culture on the Upper West Side in Manhattan. This is a people-powered convening where we focused on answering the question: How can we get more involved in supporting and sustaining our libraries?
Keep an eye out for more assembly events in the future!