The Artist-Run Reading Spaces panel at the 2017 BABZ Fair brought together the founders of artist-run bookstores, libraries, and reading rooms. Ideas of community, access, and “making public” are central to both libraries and experimental publishing practices. The artist-run reading spaces that gathered in conversation, while operating in distinct contexts in New York, Baltimore, and Philadelphia, each offer alternative ways of actualizing these ideas outside of institutional paradigms. More than distribution points for texts, artist-run reading spaces function as social spaces of reading.