Libraries amid Protest: Books, Organizing, and Global Activism (Studies in Print Culture and the History of the Book) Hardcover – May 17, 2020 9781625344908

Libraries amid Protest unpacks how these protest libraries―labor-intensive, temporary installations in parks and city squares, poorly protected from the weather, at odds with security forces―continue to arise. In telling the stories of these surprising and inspiring spaces through interviews and other research, Sherrin Frances confronts the complex history of American public libraries. She argues that protest libraries function as the spaces of opportunity and resistance promised, but not delivered, by American public libraries.