The Borough Is My Library

Alycia Sellie interviews six individuals connected to the librarian community on their opinions about librarianship, how they entered the profession, and the future of libraries. The interviewees are Toni Samek, a teacher at the School of LIbrary and Information at the University of Alberta, Jessica Fenster-Sparber, school librarian at Passages Academy in the Bronx, Daniel Kahn Gillmor, Alycia’s friend working in tech, Karen Gisonny, a librarian at the NYPL, Aliqae Geraci, a librarian at the Queens Public Library, and Sanford Berman, a radical librarian. In the middle of the zine, Alycia includes a few zine library entries from the Zinester’s Guide to NYC. The black-and-white zine is encased in a manila envelope with an illustration of a subway window scene.