lower east side librarian

You can now order a copy of The Borough Is My Library, the zine Alycia Sellie created for the Desk Set Biblioball 2009.

With its three color silkscreen cover, it's a bargain at $3-7 sliding scale, and proceeds will go to Literacy for Incarcerated Teens.

A new alternative library grows in Brooklyn: the Branch Library in Clinton Hill is a project driven primarily by designers I believe, but they were respectful enough of the library profession to talk to some librarians, including the NYC Radical Reference collective.

A picture from opening day

There is an article about Desk Set (Brooklyn librarians) in The New York Sun. (I assume the link won't last long. It's from July 5, 2007. Article by Gary Shapiro, "For New-Look Librarians, Head to Brooklyn.")