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Tamiment Library News Archive
- Tamiment Library 101, a series of informal workshops introducing researchers to the printed, archival and visual collections of the Tamiment Library & Robert F. Wagner Labor Archives, will be offered in July. These one-hour long sessions are free and open to the public. All workshops will take place in the Tamiment Library on the 10th Floor of Bobst Library. No advance sign-up required. See the program flyer for full details.
Printed Collections Workshop, Wednesday, 7/22/09, 3-4
Archival Collections Workshop, Thursday, 7/30/09, 2-3 pm
Visual Collections Workshop, Friday, 7/31/09, 2-3 pm
- Tamiment will be participating in the 3rd Annual Anarchist Book Fair on Saturday, April 11, 2009 at Judson Memorial Church in Manhattan. This is a one-day exposition of books, zines, pamphlets, art, film/video, and other cultural and very political productions of the anarchist scene worldwide.
- The Tamiment Library will be participating in Documenting Struggle: Three Radical New York City Archives, an event at the Brecht Forum on 11/11/08. Join Radical Reference for a look at some of the ways libraries and other institutions are preserving the people's history. Archivists and activists will present parts of their collections and discuss how their work keeps the struggle alive. Presented as part of the NYC Grassroots Media Coalition "make this netWORK" series, seeking to strengthen the fight for media justice by connecting local activists and media makers.
- The Spring 2009 Program Schedule for NYU's Center for the United States and the Cold War is available.
- Save the Date: The Second Annual Conference of New York University's Frederic Ewen Academic Freedom Center will be held on April 3, 2009. Panels will include Academic Freedom and the International Perspective and Academic Capitalism. Please contact Zuzanna Kobrzynski for more information.
- New The Fall 2008 Schedule is now in effect. Library hours are Monday and Wednesday, 10:00 a.m. - 9:00 p.m.; Tuesdays, Thursdays, and Fridays, 10:00 a.m. - 5:45 p.m.; and most Saturdays, 10:00 a.m. - 5:00 p.m. This schedule will be in effect from 9/02/08 until 12/19/08. Fall 2008 Library Hours.
- The Annual Conference of New York University's Frederic Ewen Academic Freedom Center, "Freedom in the Age of Permanent Warfare" is scheduled for April 3-4, 2008. For details, see the conference program schedule .
- The Tamiment Library is scheduled to participate in the Second Annual NYC Anarchist Bookfair (2008), a one-day exposition of books, zines, pamphlets, art, film/video, and other cultural and very political productions of the anarchist scene worldwide on Saturday, April 12, 2008 at Judson Memorial Church in Manhattan.
- Rediscovered Textile Strike footage from the Tamiment Library's CPUSA collections to be shown at the 6th Orphan Film Symposium, March 26-29, 2008 at the Cantor Film Center, NYU. For details: Orphan Film Symposium.
- The Tamiment Library will be participating in the 2008 Left Forum to be held March 14-16, 2008 @ The Cooper Union, NYC. Please visit our table. For details: Left Forum 2008: Cracks in the Edifice
- Anarchist Collections in the Tamiment Library, an exhibit curated by Peter M. Filardo, Rachel Yood, and Donna L. Davey, is now available on Flickr.
- CPUSA: Ninety Years of History, a Tamiment Library exhibit curated by Peter M. Filardo and Michael Nash, is now available on Flickr.
- Trove of F.B.I. Files on Lawyers Guild Shows Scope of Secret Surveillance by Colin Moynihan, New York Times, June 25, 2007. The National Lawyers Guild Records collection in the Tamiment Library and Robert F. Wagner Labor Archives has been fully processed and a finding aid for the collection is available online.
Updated 08/20/2009
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