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March 14, 2017
Library Tips in Movie Clips
by Ian Boucher
I became a librarian to apply my knowledge and skills in media studies and production toward information literacy education. This semester, at a time when the importance of reliable information is more apparent than ever, I took a cue from popular online culture in the tradition of videos like CinemaSins to create a series of icebreaker tutorials called “Library Tips in Movie Clips.” As it turns out, movies have way more library references than you’d think!
As it turns out, mov...
March 10, 2017
Linkubator Roundup: Week of March 4 – 10
Welp, the NEA and the NEH are on the chopping block in the current budget bill in Congress. Did we mention the utter idiocy of cutting necessary, creative economy-generating programs in order to salvage LITERALLY A FRACTION OF A PERCENT OF THE BUDGET? LIKE, .02%? That’s 46 cents per capita. And as far as I know, not a single action or campaign of the NEA or NEH has ever resulted in anyone’s death.
Once again, I’m pissed. Hope you are too– and I hope you use that ire to make something creat...
March 9, 2017
Librarian-Artists Celebrated With Unique Exhibit
by Bryan Voell
Pique Gallery, an “open ended art experiment” located in Covington, Kentucky, recently exhibited work created by librarians that focused on the intersections between art, creativity, information and libraries. We spoke with Pique co-manager Annie Brown about the ideas and questions that helped shape this exhibit.
Library as Incubator Project (LAIP): What was the inspiration behind featuring libraries and librarians in this art exhibit?
Annie Brown (AB): In the information age,...
March 8, 2017
Libraries are for everyone: featuring Rebecca McCorkindale
We first spoke with Rebecca a couple years ago about her artistic and creative endeavors, but we knew that we had to talk to her again once we saw her AMAZING Libraries are for Everyone images! Enjoy! -Holly
LAIP: What has changed in your artistic or library life since the last time we spoke?
Wow! What a trip down memory lane! LAIP gave me my very first interview as an artist-librarian and it was incredibly thrilling! First time around I was all “Kermit arm flailing,” and this time it feels...
March 3, 2017
Linkubator Roundup: Week of Feb 26-March 3
Hey hey Incubator friends– it’s March now, so spring feels like something that could actually happen (unless, you know, that real factual thing called Global Warming made February a balmy 60 degree haven, like it did in Pittsburgh).
We hope the extra light and the promise of daffodils will make calling your senators daily a little easier, and that you take heart in your libraries, where cool, creative, and inclusive things are happening. Some of our favorite examples from the past week are...
March 2, 2017
Makerspace Mondays: a public & school library partnership
Today we feature Holly Fuhrman, school librarian at Shiloh Middle School in Maryland, who talks with us about a very cool close partnership between Carroll County Public Schools and Carroll County Public Library. One project out of that partnership is a new Makerspace Monday program, which launched this year. ~Laura
Library as Incubator Project (LAIP): Can you give us a brief rundown of what a typical Makerspace Monday looks like? What would a new program attendee experience?
Holly Fuhrman (H...
March 1, 2017
Book to Boogie: “Cindy Moo”
Book to Boogie is a monthly series that pairs picture books with dance and movement activities for preschool story time. The series is curated by Kerry Aradhya of Picture Books & Pirouettes and written by a different guest writer each month. We hope that children’s librarians, as well as classroom teachers and dance educators, will find these activities useful and fun!
by Jayne Gammons
“Hey Diddle Diddle, the cat and the fiddle. The cow jumped over the moon.”
A cow jumping over the moon? That...
February 23, 2017
Featuring: VersAnnette Blackman-Bosia, Poet and Painter
Today we feature VersAnnette Blackman, a visual artist, poet, and facilitator from the Chicago, IL area, who talks with us about her work, her own relationship to libraries, and what it means to show her work in a public library today. Her response to our question, “What does your ideal library look like” is worth a deep reading. ~Laura
Library as Incubator Project (LAIP): Tell us about yourself and your work.
Verse Blackman (VB): I’m a poet, painter and facilitator. I’ve always been a crea...
February 22, 2017
Writing Consults at Whistler Public Library
Today’s feature comes to us from Jeanette Bruce, Program Coordinator at Whistler Public Library in Whistler, British Columbia. Jeanette coordinates a program for the library (in partnership with Simon Fraser University) called SFU Writing Studio’s Writing Consults. These free one-on-one consultations provide local writers with the opportunity to talk with a professional writer about their projects. Enjoy! ~Laura
Library as Incubator Project (LAIP): Please give us an overview of the Writers Co...
February 21, 2017
Submit your stories of “Inclusive Creativity” to the 2017 Library as Incubator Project
Since we launched in 2011, the Library as Incubator Project has worked to share inspiring stories of how libraries can bring communities together around the shared experience and practice of creativity– whether through formal arts or craft programs, makerspaces, or free exhibitions and performances. We put no limits on who may connect or what they may create together when we seek these stories; in fact, we believe the library is one...We at believe libraries are a place to connect and create.
