Infoshop Library:About

From Infoshop Library

Our goal is to create a comprehensive digital library on subjects including anarchism, radical politics, activism, social dissent, alternative culture, critical resistance, history, theory, practice, movements, struggles, fiction and much more. The subjects covered by the Infoshop Library are generally poorly represented in mainstream libraries, either online or offline. The library addresses the problem of archiving content that often appears on short-lived websites, only to disappear when people discontinue their sites or can't pay the hosting costs. The Infoshop Library capitalizes on the popularity of the Infoshop website to make this content available to a larger audience.

The Infoshop Library builds on the work of thousands of people who have authored, published and converted anarchist content to digital formats over the past 15 years. Our library carries the torch for the Spunk Library, which was the first digital anarchist library, co-founded by Infoshop librarian Chuck Munson in 1992. The Spunk Library (www.spunk.org) was the first effort by anarchists around the world to make anarchist works available on the Internet. The Spunk project was also one of the earliest online trans-national collectives. By the time it ceased activity in the late 1990s, the Spunk Library was making available nearly 1500 texts, images and graphics. Many of the materials first highlighted by the Spunk Library have been reprinted in anarchist magazines and mirrored on anarchist websites.

Taken from: http://news.infoshop.org/article.php?story=2008infoshop-library