Library News & Updates

Silent City Distro, coming soon at Alt-Library

March 9, 2012

The new zine section is being generously donated by Silent City Distro… It is currently under-construction. Zines are self-published booklets or magazines that are easily reproduced–passed on by hand through underground social currents. Silent City Distro is Ithaca’s downtown info-shop for radical, self-published media. They will be stocking Alternatives Library with zines, posters, Freeskool Calendars,…

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Girls Like Us – Rachel Lloyd

March 9, 2012

I just saw Rachel Lloyd speak at Cornell. She as inspiring and powerful. Her strength and passion is inspiring. In celebration of International Women’s Day–and in recognition of Rachel Lloyd’s recent visit to Ithaca, we’ve just got her new book, Girls Like Us.

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Welcome… New website! New materials! explore…

March 9, 2012

Hey Everyone, Big changes going on for the Alternatives Library’s website and internet access. I’m really excited to be working on this right now. It’s fun curating the content, getting tips from friends, working on images and what not. I think the most interesting part about building this website is telling the story (much multimedia)–mapping…

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Celebrate People’s History – The Poster Book of Resistance & Revolution

March 3, 2012

The culmination of 12 years of work, this is a massive collection of all of the Celebrate People’s History posters, the 65 that have been printed, and another 45 brand new designs that have yet to be printed yet except for in this book! I’ve also written a history of the project, and there is…

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