The Occupy Wall Street Library
This protest has now been going for about two weeks, which is apparently enough time for the participants to have set up basic services including a library.
The New Yorker reports that a protester (Betsy Fagin, a trained librarian) started the library after stumbling over a small stack of books where the protesters were camping out. Since the library is run completely on the honour system, there is no telling what the most popular book in the small 100+ item library is, but Betsy suggested that “she has seen a couple of people reading Allen Ginsberg’s Howl, Walt Whitman’s Leaves of Grass, and has noticed that the manga is flying off the shelves.”