These are links to sites and blogs of individuals and groups that share some of the Reanimation Library's same intellectual, artistic, cultural, and legal interests.

Artmob

Artmob is a multisectoral initiative designed to build large, accessible online archives of publically licensed Canadian art, and to foreground the issues that this process raises for Canadian copyright and intellectual property laws.

Branch Library

Formed in response to Brooklyn Public Library's decision to cut its Sunday hours, Branch is a community design and planning project to create a temporary public space on Sundays that will offer books and computer usage, as well as performances and workshops. Branch is free and open to the public.

The Book Thing of Baltimore

Begun by Russell Wattenberg in 1999, The Book Thing is a free bookstore in Baltimore dedicated to putting unwanted books into the hands of those who want them.

Chicago Underground Library

The Chicago Underground Library is a project that aims to create a location-specific archive of self- and small press-published works from the Chicago area. Through a searchable online archive and a physical space, it will open new opportunities for research, inspiration, and collaboration among those in and outside of the publishing community. By putting fiction, critical journals, zines, poetry, comics, political pamphlets, and art books side by side, CUL hopes to bridge the gaps resultant from stratification along the lines of content, production value, and commercial viability.

Chinatown Storefront Library

The Chinatown Storefront Library will transform one of Boston Chinatown's vacant, commercial, street-level spaces into a temporary public library. Operating for approximately three months, the project will create a memorable event for Chinatown, while providing a selection of urgently needed services for a community that has been without a library since 1956. The library will offer: books, Internet access, newspapers, a children's reading area, and a mix of programs and activitiesÑall furnished within an innovative architectural design that will allow the Storefront Library to be repeated in other locations.

The Storefront Library is not a branch of the Boston Public Library, nor is it intended to be a substitute for a permanent branch. The project's purpose is to activate street-level space with an installation that will demonstrate the potential impact of a library in the neighborhood. It will also model how cities can move forward in tough economic times to activate urban space.

The City Reliquary

Located in Williamsburg, Brooklyn, The City Reliquary is a museum and civic organization that displays thoughtfully arranged artifacts of New York City’s rich history, which entice viewers to learn more about the five boroughs. Some of the highlights of the collection include architectural remnants of city buildings, Statue of Liberty memorabilia, a geological display of New York’s underground composition, and a 1939 World’s Fair exhibit. In addition, The City Reliquary plans and hosts public events, which provide neighbors and visitors with a place to meet, exchange ideas, and celebrate the diversity of their community.

detritus.net

detritus.net is a site about making new creative works out of old ones. As an online gathering place for those engaged with the artistic and cultural practices of appropriation, cultural recycling, and recombinant art, it acts as a clearinghouse of information about where works created with these techniques are collected and viewed, where other relevant information exists, where this type of work is archived, and where artists and scholars can showcase such work.

FreeCulture.org

FreeCulture.org is a diverse, non-partisan group of students and young people who are working to get their peers involved in the free culture movement. Launched in April 2004 at Swarthmore College, FreeCulture.org has helped establish student groups at colleges and universities across the United States. Today, FreeCulture.org chapters exist at nine colleges, from Maine to California, with many more getting started around the world.

GRIDSPACE

The purpose of GRIDSPACE is to provide an architecturally and sculpturally specific curatorial outlet that engages the rapidly changing neighborhood of northern Crown Heights. The non-traditional storefront gallery is in the front window of Charles Goldman's studio - POWELL. The "space" itself is a wooden grid of 12 individually lit 2 foot square by 8 inch deep "cubicles," custom built to fit into the specially designed storefront.

Illegat Art

Illegal Art is a travelling exhibition of anti-copyright-activist artworks that is sponsored by Brooklyn-based Stay Free! magazine.

The Institute for the Future of the Book

The printed page is giving way to the networked screen. The Institute for the Future of the Book seeks to chronicle this shift, and impact its development in a positive direction. The Institute is a project of the Annenberg Center for Communication at the University of Southern California, and is based in Brooklyn, New York.

Lawrence Lessig

Lawrence Lessig is a Professor of Law at Stanford Law School and founder of the school's Center for Internet and Society. He is the author of The Future of Ideas and Code and Other Laws of Cyberspace. He also chairs the Creative Commons project. Professor Lessig is a boardmember of the Electronic Frontier Foundation, a Board Member of the Center for the Public Domain, and a Commission Member of the Penn National Commission on Society, Culture and Community at the University of Pennsylvania.

Main Street Museum

The Main Street Museum is exploring the margins of alternative curation. It experiments in collections of material culture and non-interaction.

Machine Project

Existing to encourage the heroic experiments of the gracefully over-ambitious, Machine Project presents workshops, events, installations and performances on a semi-regular basis. Machine Project provides educational resources to artists working with technology; it educates and collaborates with artists to produce site-specific, non-commercial work; and it promotes conversations between artists, scientists, poets, technicians, performers and the communities of Los Angeles as a whole. With a wide array of cultural programming, Machine Project demonstrates the creative possibilities of technology to open up interdisciplinary conversations between disparate knowledge communities. With presentations and lectures, it offers rarified knowledge in a friendly, human manner, and fosters a greater understanding between art and science. And at the most practical level, Machine Project offers hands-on training in some of the skills presented in its exhibits and lectures, putting knowledge tools into the hands of its community and giving them the ability to create work of their own.

Morbid Anatomy

A blog created by Joanna Ebenstein that's dedicated to surveying the interstices of art and medicine, death and culture.

Rick Prelinger

Rick Prelinger began collecting ephemral films in the 1970's and has amassed over 50,000 of them. They were acquired by the Library of Congress in 2002. He has written extensively on the importance of providing free public access to his collections and keeping these materials in the public domain. In addition to these films, Prelinger has collected printed materials which have recently been organized and made accessible at The Prelinger Library (see below).

The Prelinger Library

The Prelinger Library is an appropriation-friendly, browsable collection of approximately 40,000 books, periodicals, printed ephemera and government documents located in San Francisco. Its holdings include resources on the North American landscape, housing (building, design, and decoration), city planning, architecture, infrastructure, natural history, cultural relationships to nature, the history of industry, manufacturing, and extraction of raw materials, media and technology, advertising, marketing and consumerism, thousands of maps, and much more.

Proteus Gowanus

Proteus Gowanus is a gallery and reading room located on the Gowanus Canal in Brooklyn, NY. The gallery develops interdisciplinary exhibits and programs that revolve around an annual theme. Proteus Gowanus incorporates the rich and diverse cultural resources of seven non-profit organizations into its exhibits and programming.

Proteotypes

Proteotypes is the publishing arm of Proteus Gowanus, a collaborative interdisciplinary gallery and reading room in the Gowanus district of Brooklyn, dedicated to the assembling, in several media, of apparently incongruous ideas or forms to construct surprising yet meaningful compounds and dialogues.

Provisions Library

The Provisions Library is a physical and virtual experimental arena where broad and diverse audiences, cultures and ideas intersect, sparking new possibilities for enacting peace, justice, sustainability, social responsibility and respect for the diversity of life. Provisions places great value on the power of the arts- literature, visual art, new media, theatre, music- to speak across national and cultural boundaries and provide a critical lens through which to see the world.

The Public School New York

THE PUBLIC SCHOOL is a school with no curriculum. At the moment, it operates as follows: first, classes are proposed by the public (I want to learn this or I want to teach this); then, people have the opportunity to sign up for the classes (I also want to learn that); finally, when enough people have expressed interest, the school finds a teacher and offers the class to those who signed up.

THE PUBLIC SCHOOL is not accredited, it does not give out degrees, and it has no affiliation with the public school system. It is a framework that supports autodidactic activities, operating under the assumption that everything is in everything.

Save Orphan Works

Save Orphan Works is a loosely knit coalition of people and groups who believe the fight to Reclaim the Public Domain is crucial to preserving our past and creating our future. We are librarians, archivists, bloggers, musicians, programmers, economists, activists, lawyers, and citizens.

SIVACRACY.NET

Siva Vaidhyanathan, a cultural historian and media scholar, is the author of Copyrights and Copywrongs: The Rise of Intellectual Property and How it Threatens Creativity and The Anarchist in the Library: How the Clash between Freedom and Control is Hacking the Real World and Crashing the System. He has taught at Wesleyan University, the University of Wisconsin at Madison, and New York University. He is an associate professor of Media Studies and Law at the University of Virginia and a fellow at both the New York Institute for the Humanities and the Institute for the Future of the Book.

UbuWeb

UbuWeb is a completely independent resource dedicated to all strains of the avant-garde, ethnopoetics, and outsider arts. All materials on UbuWeb are being made available for noncommercial and educational use only. All rights belong to the author(s). UbuWeb is completely free.