Resources
I asked the contributors and friends to recommend radical or alternative library resources, and here's what people suggested (along with some comments). Categories are not tightly defined!
Have a suggestion? Email info -AT- informedagitation.info - Melissa Morrone
Library, Research, and Education Activism
The Bookery (a project of Equal Education; “my volunteer experience at the Bookery was the funnest thing I've ever done”)
Collectif de recherche sur l'autonomie collective (Le CRAC)
GELA (Greater Edmonton Library Association) Prison Project
Institute for Anarchist Studies
Jessamyn West (“I found her by reading The Anarchist's Tool Chest by Christopher Schwarz”)
Radical Library of Philadelphia (Philadelphia, PA)
Social Responsibilities Round Table of the American Library Association
Social Movements
African Activist Archive, Michigan State University
Eternal Summer of the Black Feminist Mind (“ill archival practice”)
Kate Sharpley Library (also has a physical space in Northern California, open by appointment only)
libcom.org library (one contributor recommends Larry Law)
Living Archives on Eugenics in Western Canada
Mother Earth Magazine on Project Gutenberg
The Palestine Poster Project Archives
Philadelphia Social Justice Archives (Philadelphia, PA)
San Francisco Bay Area Television Archive, Black Panthers Collection
The Shirley Chisholm Project of Brooklyn Women’s Activism
Spelman College, Archives/Women's Resource & Research Center ("Official repository of the College, the oldest historically Black college for women, as well as the personal papers of writers-activists Audre Lorde and Toni Cade Bambara and artist Selma Burke.")
WTO Seattle Collection, University of Washington
Books, Zines, and Multimedia
AK Press (“my favorite place for radical publishing [other than Library Juice]”)
Docs Populi (Lincoln Cushing)
Queer Zine Archive Project (QZAP)
Revolting Books and their Black Cardigan Collective (Wellington, New Zealand)
Radical Libraries and Archives
ABC No Rio Zine Library (New York, NY)
Barnard Zine Library (New York, NY)
La Belle Époque (Montreal, QC)
Catherwood Library, Cornell University (Ithaca, NY)
Center for Cooperatives, University of Wisconsin-Madison (Madison, WI)
Centre de recherche en imagerie populaire, Université du Québec à Montréal (Montreal, QC)
Fine Arts Reading Room, Concordia University (Montreal, QC)
Holt Labor Library (San Francisco, CA)
Interference Archive (Brooklyn, NY)
Joseph A. Labadie Collection, University of Michigan (Ann Arbor, MI)
Junto Library (Winnipeg, MB)
The Lesbian Herstory Archives (Brooklyn, NY)
Prelinger Library (San Francisco, CA)
QPIRG Concordia Alternative Library (Montreal, QC)
Soapbox Zine Library (Philadelphia, PA)
Sophia Smith Collection, Smith College (Northampton, MA)
Tamiment Library & Robert F. Wagner Labor Archives, New York University (New York, NY)
Walter P. Reuther Library, Archives of Labor and Urban Affairs, Wayne State University (Detroit, MI)