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.
• 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.