Taking it to the Streets: Passion, Librarians, and Radical Reference
by Eli Edwards
"...Radical Reference (RadRef) began as a project to provide information services to political activists and independent media reporters during the 2004 Republic National Convention in New York City. According to co-founder Jenna Freedman, a librarian at Barnard College in New York City, “We thought [the protestors] would need reliable sources of information in a time when all hell was expected to break loose and rumors would probably be flying around everywhere. Our job in the street was to be calm and knowledgeable and to have good resources available to us in the RR kits or at the other end of a phone.
