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The next NYC info workers meeting will be on Thursday, February 23, from 6:30 pm-8:30 pm in LeFrak Center Room 113 (Library Instruction Lab), Barnard Library.

Come to the second informal gathering of NYC area librarians, archivists and information workers interested in organizing against the coming Trump era. We will continue to discuss potential impacts, identify skills and organizing strategies, and start brainstorming next steps.

Sunday, January 8
6pm
Printed Matter
231 11th Ave (near 26th St), NYC

Announcement for the first meeting, held at Interference Archive

Notes from the first meeting.

Radical Reference and 5 Borough Defenders (5BD) invite you to meet, greet, and talk social justice.

In follow up to last month's meeting, we will be joined by a member of Muckrock - a non-profit news site that provides tools to keep our government transparent and accountable.

Monday, July 25 2016
7pm
233 Broadway New York, NY 10279

RSVP requested (http://evite.me/grXUwAkTzu).

Please send agenda items, questions, and whatever else to nyc@radicalreference.info.

Radical Reference and 5 Borough Defenders invite you to happy hour. Let's meet, greet, and talk social justice.

Tuesday, June 14 2016
7pm
Fourth Avenue Pub
76 4th Avenue Brooklyn, NY 11217

RSVP requested (http://evite.me/uBWqZZ8xXF)

Please send agenda items, questions, and whatever else to nyc@radicalreference.info.

Who's here:
Stephen
Cynthia
Jen (note taker)
Natalie
Evan
Melissa

1. Introductions

2. Melissa gives a recap of the last meeting

The next meeting of the newly re-forming NYC collective of Radical Reference will be:

Friday, May 6, 2016
7-9pm
Interference Archive
131 8th Street — #4
Brooklyn, NY 11215
(2 blocks from F/G/R trains at 4th ave./9th street)

Please send agenda items, questions, and whatever else to facilitators Melissa and Jenna nyc@radicalreference.info.

Attendance

Alex, Bonnie, Charisma, Eamon, Ellen, Jaime, Jenna (note-taker), Leigh, Lucia, Meg, Melissa (facilitator), Sarah, Stephen

Intro

We started with a go around where people shared one thing that gives them joy about their library work and one thing that's challenging or that they'd like to change.

Radical Reference is a collective of volunteer library workers who believe in social justice and equality. We support activist communities, progressive organizations, and independent journalists by providing professional research support, education and access to information. From 2004 until around 2012, the NYC collective of Radical Reference met regularly, put on events, and participated in activist communities.

Do you want to meet and collaborate with other anti-authoritarian library workers and LIS students in the NYC area? Come to the Radical Reference NYC local collective's first meeting in more than five years. For now our plan is to focus on whether there is interest in reviving the collective and if so, what that would look like.

Saturday, April 9, 2016
3-5pm
Interference Archive
131 8th Street — #4
Brooklyn, NY 11215
(2 blocks from F/G/R trains at 4th ave./9th street)

Please send agenda items, questions, and whatever else to facilitators Melissa Morrone and Jenna Freedman nyc@radicalreference.info.

The photo, from 2004 article in The Indypendent, is of Torie Quiñonez and Lia Friedman at a protest against the Republican National Convention in NYC. Torie and Lia live in San Diego now, but they still have a NYC home in our hearts.

Interference Archive work day, Sunday November 18, 12-5
131 8th st. #4, Brooklyn, NY 11215 (2 blocks from F/G/R trains at 4th ave./9th st.)

Interference Archive work day, Sunday October 21, 12-5
131 8th st. #4, Brooklyn, NY 11215 (2 blocks from F/G/R trains at 4th ave./9th st.)