Rock & Roll Library cranks up the volumes

The Boston Globe Reports on a benefit concert, at a nightclub, for a library.
The Rock & Roll Library, where music meets academia, and things can get loud. It’s the brainchild of Brighton resident Anne Fitzpatrick, who came up with the idea for a different kind of library after a childhood visit to a more traditional one in her hometown of Quincy.

In 1999, Fitzpatrick opened the Rock & Roll Library in her Lower Allston home, having abandoned the idea of an actual library building in favor of a virtual home on the Web. The library remained there for the next three years, then spent a brief exile in Arlington earlier this year before returning to Allston this past summer. Despite the difficulties of moving, and trying to raise funds in a struggling economy, Fitzpatrick says that the mission remains on course.