NYC Public Library Action Network
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.
- 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 Public Library People’s Assembly happened on Saturday, May 17th from 1:30pm-5:30pm at Greenpoint Reformed Church in Brooklyn. This was a people-powered convening where we focused on answering the question: What could increased public library funding make possible for our communities?
Keep an eye out for more assembly events in the future!