This guide was created to support the activities of the Anime and Manga Club at Swarthmore College, but hopefully others interested in the topic will find it useful as well. McCabe contains a small but growing collection of anime films and manga books. The films are found upstairs on the 3rd floor and the manga are found both in the general stacks and the popular reading room on the main floor. If you have suggestions for specific titles you'd like us to add to the collection, please let us know!

Past issues of student publications, from BEM to Scarlet Letters (formerly known as Commonspeaking) and Spike, are collected by the Library for archival purposes. Two copies of each issue are filed in the Rare Book Room.

Note: If you're an editor of a student publication and can't find any copies in Tripod or see gaps in our collection of your publication, please email Tech Services Specialist, Louise Petrilla, lpetril1@swarthmore.edu. Also, to graduating editors: Don't forget to tell your incoming editors to pass two copies of each issue to Louise. The Library wants to ensure a full and comprehensive collection of all your works!

The genesis of the Free Culture movement lies in Lawrence Lessig’s book of the same name, which defined intellectual property reform as a social and cultural issue as well as a legal and commercial one.  Tthe movement had no real presence in campus activism groups until 2004, when Nelson Pavlosky and Luke Smith created the Swarthmore Coalition for the Digital Commons.