Overview

• The library debuted online this week with 65 works, including Langston Hughes’s Shakespeare in Harlem and Octavia E. Butler’s Bloodchild.
• Borrowing requires online registration with a credit card on file, limited to one book per person on a first-come, first-served basis for 45 days with free return postage.
• Lost or damaged items incur replacement charges after reminder notices, formalizing an honor-system approach to protecting rare materials.
• The archive centers rare, out-of-print, and first-edition books, zines, and catalogues by Black and Brown authors, poets, and artists.
• The project builds on a 2021 collaboration with Rosa Duffy of For Keeps Bookstore, with registration details shared via Solange’s Instagram and a second collection promised.