1. Go to the library
2. Look in the Anarchism section (320 in public libraries [dewey decimal] HX800-999 or so in university libraries[library of congress])
3. Alternatively, request a book on interlibrary loan.
4. Xerox the pages
5. Copies MUST be as clean as possible
   1. A messy copy is worth nothing.
   2. It is okay if there are marginal marks, but too much speckling around the text itself makes Optical Character Recognition too laborious
   3. Set contrast high. Make sure the black text is black and everything else is white.
   4. Brightness doesn't matter. You can adjust brightness high to get rid of the background dirt. Optical Character Recognition will recognize pale text okay, but too much background noise will kill it.
   5. Before you xerox the whole book, make sure you have fixed the Xerox settings correctly for ONE page.
6. Collect ANARCHIST materials
   1. We are ecumenical and non-sectarian to the extreme. Any anarchist material is acceptable including Green Anarchism, Anarcho-Syndicalism, even Anarcho-Capitalism, etc.
   2. No bigotry. In certain cases, we will recognize that a certain author might have outdated views on a certain group (eg "women's role in the revolution is to cook the food".) This is tolerable. However, no pieces whose focus is racist, nazi, sexist, homophobic, etc, will be accepted.
   3. Only Anarchist Material. If they are not somehow anarchist, we do not want general radicalism, labor movement, socialist, marxist etc.
   4. Foreign-language material WILL be accepted
7. Copyright
   1. We don't want any problems with the authorities. Try to respect copyrights.
   2. Many anarchist materials are anti-copyright.
   3. Copyright law on Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Copyright
   4. If possible, try to contact author of piece to ask them about adding materials to the archive.
   5. If your text has been placed on the archive illegally, please contact us and we will remove it
8. Mutual aid, not competition
   1. We recognize that some of our comrades depend financially upon reprinting materials. We have no desire to compete with publishers such as AK Press, South End, Zed, Charles H. Kerr, Dover, et al. We would rather NOT include these on the archive without permission from the publisher whose finances depends on reprints of that text.
   2. Other internet archives. Spunk Press, The Anarchy Archives, et al, have already archived many texts. We do not need to replicate their work.
9. Send your xeroxes to us by post