Library Economy
This illustration was made for Library Economy NYC, a New York-based community-run project. This project is the first step to creating a library-based sharing economy in New York City, through bottom-up, directly democratic organizing at the neighborhood level. We work within two coordinated systems: a Distributed Library of physical items, and cooperative service through Neighbor Labor.
In the short term, we wish to foster a sense of community and mutual aid within our network, and inspire other neighborhoods to self-organize alongside us. In the long term, we hope to provide our neighbors and ourselves with an alternative, collective way to meet our needs, without relying on the state and corporations.
In the short term, we wish to foster a sense of community and mutual aid within our network, and inspire other neighborhoods to self-organize alongside us. In the long term, we hope to provide our neighbors and ourselves with an alternative, collective way to meet our needs, without relying on the state and corporations.