Network of libertarian libraries
Free software for library management, made by and for anarchist libraries.
Cataloguing a collection, tracking loans, welcoming readers, cooperating with other libraries of the movement: simple gestures that no existing tool truly respects.
Proprietary software is expensive, surveils its users and imposes its categories. Generalist free tools are designed for university or municipal libraries, not for ours.
AnarBib does it differently: a tool conceived from our practices, for our collections, in our languages.
Principles
What we refuse, what we defend
We refuse that militant memory should depend on companies that rent out their software, capture readers' data, or impose a market vision of the circulation of knowledge.
We defend:
- local sovereignty — each library remains owner of its collection, its rules, its readers;
- horizontal cooperation — libraries of the network exchange records, loans, skills, without hierarchy;
- real free-of-charge access — no subscription, no premium version, no withheld feature;
- free code — everything is readable, modifiable, redistributable;
- multilingualism — the interface exists in Brazilian Portuguese, French, Castilian, Italian, English, German, Catalan, Esperanto, and welcomes other languages on request.
Three doors of entry
How to join us
A house with three doors of entry and one single foundation, the CCLA.
Reader
You want to borrow, reserve, consult in a library already in the network. Find your library in the directory and create your account there.
Library
Your collective wants to join the network. Request a hosted instance or install AnarBib on your own infrastructure. No cost, no commercial counterpart.
Isolated comrade
You want to help without being in a library. Code, translations, documentation, testing: anything useful counts.
The CCLA
AnarBib is carried by the Centro de Cultura Libertária da Amazônia, a libertarian athenaeum from Belém do Pará. The BLMF is the first pilot library of the network.