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Monday, October 24, 2011
Occupy Boston maintains a library
The New York Times reports that Occupy Boston and the Occupy Wall Street protesters have set up tent libraries. The Boston Radical Reference Collective have been active in helping set up the library in Boston. The Times reports that the protesters are receiving up to 50 books per day, which are sorted by genre. The most requested book seems to be Howard Zinn's People’s History of the United States which is not checked out because it is in such high demand. Noam Chomsky is another author in high demand.
Tip of the OOTJ hat to my daughter's fiance, Eli Gottlieb, for alerting me to the story!
Here's a very thorough article from Inside Higher Ed on the rise of libraries in the Occupy movement: http://www.insidehighered.com/views/2011/11/02/essay-librarians-occupy-movement
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