Abolitionist Library Association: “Abolitionist Library Association is a collective of library workers, students, and community members taking action to divest from all forms of policing in libraries and invest in our collective liberation. We envision a world without policing or prisons. Our goal is to create libraries that are rooted in community self-determination and intellectual freedom through collective action.”

Brooklyn Public Library Justice Initiatives: “Part of the Outreach Services department, Justice Initiatives works to support incarcerated and formerly incarcerated patrons and their families and to raise public awareness of issues of racial, social, and economic justice.”

For the People: a leftist library project: “As reactionary forces target libraries through book bans and some liberal politicians propose funding cuts instead of increases for libraries, it’s essential that more leftists become involved in their local libraries. The Right focuses on taking over public institutions to privatize & neuter them. We on the Left(s) must focus on strengthening and expanding public institutions that we value. Progressives and Leftists must put public libraries at the top of our organizing agendas. For the People is intended to be a decentralized, autonomous, volunteer-driven formation. There is no funding associated; we have no money. But what we hope to have is people power as we develop over time.”

New York Public Library’s Jail & Prison Services “team delivers a range of library programs, including: circulating book service at city jails; Daddy & Me / Mommy & Me, a book-recording project with incarcerated parents; Reference by Mail to incarcerated patrons, and book discussion groups where incarcerated readers discuss a range of literature and non-fiction.”

Prison Library Support Network: “The Prison Library Support Network is an information-based collective founded in 2016 to support incarcerated people by organizing networks for sharing resources and building capacity for the movement for prison abolition in libraries, archives, and other knowledge-based institutions. PLSN aims to: connect incarcerated people with any information resources they determine they need; establish lines of communication between people inside who aren’t able to get the information they need and people outside with access to libraries, information resources, and search tools; develop methods for sharing information which are not tied to the carceral or colonial state.”

Queens Public Library Correctional Outreach: “Correctional Outreach offers programs and services for people who are incarcerated or formerly incarcerated, and their loved ones. Queens Public Library is currently providing library service at two facilities at Rikers Island. Patrons may borrow books from the collection, and Queens Public Library also answers reference questions and provides referrals to library services and other non-profits. If you are interested in donating to our book collection at Rikers Island, we are happy to accept your new or gently used books that meet certain criteria.”