Library News and Updates as of May 2008!

Click here to view the list of new arrivals

For a recently started, downloadable collection of radical zines, click here!

The QPIRG Concordia Resource Centre is a free library that is committed to fulfilling the QPIRG Concordia mandate, which aims to promote social and environmental justice. We are currently striving to emphasize anti-racism as a lens through which to do this.

Our mission is to be an accessible information provider and community resource. We strive to provide alternative books, magazines, films and audio materials which cannot be easily found in regular libraries and to hold materials which are representative of the issues, concerns and interests of marginalized communities. Currently, our commitment to accessibility is visible in our free and open membership policy, our easy to use system and our o­n line database. We are continually working to improve the physical accessibility of the space.

Our library carries hundreds of books, magazines, zines and audio-visual items, mostly in English. Our resources specialize in social and environmental justice covering subjects such as anti-racism and colonialism, queer issues, economics and globalization, sexuality and gender, (un)popular history, media, art and culture, prison issues, labour, environmental issues and more. We also stock most films shown in our film series.

We have an o­n-line, searchable database, shared with the 2110 and QPIRG-McGill, which can be consulted to view all our current holdings.

The library organizes a variety of projects throughout the year. These include kids programs, reading lists and resource packs, reading groups, writing workshops, film screenings and more! If you would like to be part of setting up our 2008-2009 projects, give us a call at (514) 848-7585 or drop a line to library@qpirgconcordia.org to join the library committee.

Library membership is free and open to all, including non-students. To become a member of the library, and get your library card, come visit us from Monday to Thursday between 1 to 6 pm. You can reach us at 848-7585 or via email at library@qpirgconcordia.org. Currently, the library is not entirely wheelchair accessible, though it is something we are working o­n.

We have a lending library stocked with hard-to-find magazines, audio-cassettes, videos and books o­n issues such as anti-racism, class, anarchist theory, women's struggles, eco-thinking and more! Membership is open to all!

Email library@qpirgconcordia.org to make buying suggestions for our collection and if it fits into our mandate, we’ll do our best to find and buy it!