NYC Public Library Action Network

Join us at the NYC Public Library People’s Assembly on Saturday, May 17th from 1:30pm-5:30pm at Greenpoint Reformed Church in Brooklyn (with lunch provided starting at 1:00pm). This is a people-powered convening where we’ll focus on answering the question: What could increased public library funding make possible for our communities?

Send a letter to all the mayoral candidates demanding increased funding for our public libraries!

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.
• 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.
• Libraries must be decarceral
  • Libraries must be anti-carceral to ensure that they are spaces for all
    people.
• Abundance is the future
  • We build more through abundance than austerity. An abundant
    future is ours if we fight for it.