Announcing the Anarchist Library v1.0

Date Sun, 31 May 2009 14:27:31 +0300



We introduce, for your pleasure, The Anarchist Library, an archive of anarchist texts:
books, essays, and articles. We hope that this archive grows from its initial selection of
over 400 titles (books, essays, and articles) into a comprehensive textual library that
spans the entirety of anarchist thought. ---- The Internet has allowed us an amazing
opportunity to share anarchist texts widely. This has allowed more people than ever access
to obscure anarchist literature and propaganda. The few existing anarchist archives have
all been helpful and inspirational to this project, which arises due to the inactivity of
the existing online anarchist archives, with little sign that anyone is specifically
serving as a librarian (commonly lacking introduction, curation, updating, or all of the
above).

A library is either active or dying and with the Internet popping with new anarchist texts
every day, we believe it would be a shame to not attend to them.


Our group is comprised of anarchists spread across 10 timezones that use conversational
consensus to review, edit and update the site. We are an open group.

Besides providing you with a more inclusive and coherent forum to access existing
anarchist texts, The Anarchist Library offers clean site design, active curation, and
clean, typographically-accurate PDFs. We also intend to continue to support open formats
and Free Software. We share code!
What is the significance of typographically accurate PDFs?

Short answer: they look better.
Longer answer: the creation of PDFs from the library text transforms this project from
merely an online browsing source to a place where portable analog documents can be created
for distribution, sharing, and sneaking into the hands of people who wouldn't otherwise
find the texts. The website is pull, printed material is push.
How can I help?

You can help us by creating a user account at http://theanarchistlibrary.org and uploading
your favorite anarchist document that isn't already uploaded. Remember to pay close
attention to the uploading instructions as they are technically specific. If you have ever
manually-edited HTML, this will not be challenging.

If you are interested in working with the library group please join us in our active
channel on the Anarchist News SILC Server in channel #Library. We are there most days for
12+ hours a day (usually from 0800 GMT to 2000 GMT) and use conversational consensus to
make most of our decisions.
More information?

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