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Submitted by JessaL on Wed, 10/23/2013 - 6:29pm
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Since 2006, Radical Reference has been providing online reference services to activists, journalists and researchers who requested help looking for information and resources. Over the years, we've answered questions that have ranged in scope from mail tampering in prison to the history of radical education to the future of librarianship. Yet as we’ve evaluated the quality and efficacy of this service, we’ve been confronted with difficulties of providing in-depth answers in a timely way. As a result, we've decided collectively to suspend this service indefinitely.
This decision was not reached easily, as for many of us, answering reference questions has been a vital part of fulfilling the Radical Reference mission statement of supporting activist communities, progressive organizations, and independent journalists by providing professional research support, education, and access to information. Nevertheless, we've decided to suspend reference services in order to concentrate on other areas of activism, including connecting activists to librarians on a local level, maintaining and developing information resources on the website, and using social media to connect people interested in information activism.
For general online reference support, we can point you to ASK NYPL, your local public library, the Internet Public Library, or Ask MetaFilter.
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Submitted by Maura on Mon, 05/22/2017 - 8:28am
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The next NYC radical reference meeting will take place on:
Tuesday, June 13, 2017, 6:30-8:30 PM
Center for Jewish History (15 W 16th St, New York, NY 10011)
The meeting will be held in the Kovno Room, which is on the second floor. It is wheelchair accessible via an elevator. Just a reminder, there is airport style security upon entering the building.
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Submitted by Rebecca Clark on Thu, 04/27/2017 - 1:16pm
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The next NYC radical reference meeting will take place on:
May 4, 2017, 6:30-8:30 PM
Center for Jewish History (15 W 16th St, New York, NY 10011)
The meeting will be held in the Kovno Room, which is on the second floor. It is wheelchair accessible via an elevator. Just a reminder, there is airport style security upon entering the building.
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Submitted by nicoleghaus on Sun, 03/12/2017 - 4:00pm
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The next radical reference meeting will take place on:
March 21, 2017, 6:30-8:30 PM
Center for Jewish History (15 W 16th St, New York, NY 10011)
The meeting will be held in the Chapel, which is on the second floor (it is not a religious space, that is just the name of the room). It is wheelchair accessible via an elevator. Please note that people coming into CJH will have to go through a metal detector and x-ray scanner.
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Submitted by AudreySage on Mon, 01/30/2017 - 11:39pm
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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.
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Submitted by MRM on Tue, 01/03/2017 - 9:48am
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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.
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Submitted by SMNYC on Mon, 07/18/2016 - 5:39pm
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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.
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Submitted by SMNYC on Fri, 06/03/2016 - 11:33am
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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.
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Submitted by MRM on Thu, 04/28/2016 - 9:21pm
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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.
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Submitted by jenna on Sat, 04/02/2016 - 9:02pm
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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.
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