The Rad Library

Categories!

theradlibrary — Tue, 03 May 2011 09:03:28 +0000

We’ve been working hard categorising all of our books!! Using the wonderful colourful sticker system have classified our stuff into one or more of the following (potentially contested and somewhat arbitrary) categories:
- queer, gender, feminism and sexuality
- race and Aboriginal/Indigenous/First Nation
- health, ability and mental health
- environment
- religion, religious issues and spirituality
- food, gardening and DIY
- exposé
- praxis, community and collective organising
- political theory and philosophy
- australian/local
- fiction (including speculative and less speculative)
- young adult
- kids
- autobiography/biography
- the arts (inc. poetry, scripts, performance, visual arts)

The Rad Library @ Cottonmouth

theradlibrary — Tue, 03 May 2011 08:51:49 +0000

The Rad Library will be appearing this Thursday night at Cottonmouth! Yes that’s right, its the monthly Cottomouth Performance night, and we will be joining the Perth Zine Collective at 7.30pm at 459 Bar, to showcase our collection.

“Cottonmouth is a Perth-based performance and publishing venture that held its first event in February 2008. Held monthly, the Cottonmouth performance project showcases spoken-word artists, poets, so…und artists, playwrights, new media practitioners and other emerging and established performers in the field of narrative art”

Its $5 entry to get into the performance night; or $20 entry if you want the Cottonmouth anthology. Individual Cottonmouth ‘zines are by donation.

We’ve been very excited about categorising our books in preparation, and have classified our stuff into one or more of the following (potentially contested and somewhat arbitrary) categories:
- queer, gender and sexuality
- race and Aboriginal/Indigenous/First Nation
- health, ability and mental health
- environment
- food, gardening and DIY
- exposé
- praxis, community and collective organising
- political theory and philosophy
- australian/local
- fiction (including speculative and less speculative)
- young adult
- kids
- autobiography/biography
- the arts (inc. poetry, scripts, performance, visual arts)

Remember, we also have zines, videos, DVDs, and a game (just one, and it’s on loan, heh). And a free box, full of FREE things!

Unfortunately we won’t be loaning anything out as this is not our normal venue and we’ve had trouble with returns of late, however you will be able to see what we have on offer and get motivated to get down to Hyde Park and borrow !

You can check out what we’ve got catalogued already (though the catalogue is a little out of date)

If you really desperately want to borrow something and absolutely can’t make it on Sundays, then please let us know in advance and we should be able to arrange something

For more info on Cottonmouth as a whole and the PZC:

http://cottonmouth.org.au/

http://perthzinecollective.wordpress.com/

Much love and see you there
The Rad Librarians

Kids books!!!!!!!

theradlibrary — Tue, 29 Mar 2011 14:00:34 +0000

It’s very exciting, our kids books section is growing!!! We have books such as The Hungriest Boy in the World, a book on how to make musical instruments, one on Life and Death celebrations around the world, and many many more. Come check it out!!! We also have a young adult section… oh and so much more!!

The Rad Library

theradlibrary — Tue, 21 Dec 2010 05:44:53 +0000

Hi Welcome to the Rad Library wordpress site. Feel free to have a look around.

Check out our online catalogue, where to find us, photos, and videos of rad librarian hiphop.

Hope you could find us

theradlibrary — Thu, 09 Dec 2010 01:52:34 +0000

Apologies to anyone who couldn’t find us on Sunday! We had to move from our usual location on the stage in Hyde Park to one of the Pagodas due to a clashing event. We left a sign by the stage but it was taken away… Besides this little hitch it was a great library day! We had a good turn-out and some great book discussions!

Welcome…

theradlibrary — Thu, 02 Dec 2010 09:36:47 +0000

… to the bRAnD new website y’all!

Don’t miss ‘Rad Librarian Videos’… where you’ll find none other than the Texas Hip Hop Librarians! And more…