Spunk Library can only flourish if people contribute material. This document contains some guidelines for people wishing to contribute material. By following these guidelines you will make our task easier.

Format

There is a separate document on formats listing the text formats and disk/tape formats that we can currently accept. This also contains information on how to submit a disk or tape, if you do not have electronic access to the Internet.

Content

We collect anarchist materials. If you are unsure about whether we might add your item to our library, see our content guidelines. If you are looking for a place for somebody to publish your book, story, or poem, please go somewhere else. We are not a publisher.

Information

• Title, author and a short description
• Keywords to aid online search tools such as WAIS.
• Related material of interest, and where to find it; this could be the name of a publisher, or an electronic mail address.
• Contacts
• Any other relevant information

For instance, the interview with Buenaventura Durruti has the following extra details:

It would help if you could use a similar style to the above, so that the database in which this information is easy to work with. Please either send this information as an electronic mail message, or include it in a plain text file on disk, if you are sending material by disk.

Scanning Material

If you have access to an OCR, and are to willing to scan printed text, we'd particularly like to hear from you. See the document on OCR scanning for details.

Copyright

Please see our copyrights and permissions page for our guidelines. We prefer materials that are in the public domain or that are anti-copyrighted. Normally, this means anything that does not have explicit permission for redistribution, unless it is an edition of a work that is more than 60 years old. If you obtain permission to redistribute, please send us a copy of the permission.

Rejections

Occasionally material may have to be refused, because of inappropriate format, permissions problems, or because the content is not relevant. When this happens, the item refused is listed in the file Spunk_Rejections, with the reason for rejection, and an indication of where it can be obtained.

Where To Send Material

By electronic mail: <spunk@spunk.org>.

By snail mail:

Spunk Library
C/o Practical Anarchy
PO Box 179
College Park, MD 20741-1079
USA

Submissions sent via snail mail WILL NOT BE RETURNED.

Last modification: 23-March-2000.