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February 14, 2017
Loading the Cannons: Guest Authors at Teen Writing Groups
This post was first published on February 19, 2015.
This is a post written by Heather Dickerson, Teen Services Librarian for the Lewis & Clark Library in Helena, Montana. In her series for the LAIP, “Loading the Cannons,” Heather tackles the question “what to do with young adults in a creative writing workshop?” Enjoy! ~ Laura
by Heather Dickerson
I love any opportunity to bring authors to Lewis & Clark Library, especially when they’re open to spending some time with our teen writers. This p...
February 10, 2017
Linkubator Roundup: Week of February 5th
Another shit week in the news! Hooray! [wild sarcasm]. On the upside, we have real stories of exciting programs, artists, and collections that are already helping us fulfill our promise to bring you stories about #InclusiveCreativity in 2017. Use them to make your library better– it’s the last truly democratic space, and you can keep it that way.
~Erinn
Top Features Check out Coffee House Press’ creative-in-residence program with The Givens Collection of African American Literature at the...February 9, 2017
Featuring: The Free Instrument Lending Library (FRILL)
Today we are super thrilled to host Patty Conway from Girls Rock! RVA (Richmond, Virginia) to give us the scoop on FRILL (The Free Instrument Lending Library, which is a very cool collaboration between Girls Rock! RVA and the Richmond Public Library. Enjoy! ~Laura
Library as Incubator Project (LAIP): Please give us a rundown of FRILL and what the partnership between Girls Rock! RVA and the Richmond Public Library looks like.
Patty Conway (PC): The Free Richmond Instrument Lending Library is...
February 7, 2017
Featuring visual artist Alisa Ochoa
Constellation (interiors)
Library as Incubator Project (LAIP): Tell us a little bit about yourself and your work
Alisa Ochoa (AO): I am a visual artist who occasionally hacks together printed objects. I am not trained as a book binder or printmaker, but I am an admirer of the craft. I learned on the job, when I was enlisted to teach letterpress printing at University California, Santa Barbara— then later as a volunteer print steward at Center for the Books Arts, New York. My environment has...
February 3, 2017
Linkubator Roundup, Week of January 29, 2017
This week, I found that even when my Pennsylvania senators’ mailboxes were full (deliberately left full, it seemed), I could still fax their offices. Conveniently, FaxZero has a link on their homepage for sending free faxes to your senators and representatives. A connection online assured me that in his experience working for a senator, every kind of communication (fax, call, e-mail, social media) got logged into a single spreadsheet of public comments.
So, I’m faxing lawmakers (each day I...
February 2, 2017
Archive / Improv by Paul Sunday at Mid-Manhattan Library
Today’s feature comes to us from visual artist Paul Sunday, whose exhibition titled Archive / Improv is installed in The Picture Collection at the NYPL’s Mid-Manhattan Library. Thanks to Mid-Manhattan Library’s Curator and Art Librarian Arezoo Moseni for her help in assembling this feature. ~Laura
A visit to the library, a solo exhibition
by Paul Sunday
I adore books and libraries. For many years The New York Public Library has provided me with inspiration, serving as a refuge for study and...
February 1, 2017
Book to Boogie: “Bunny Slopes”
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 Julie Dietzel-Glair
Bunny is ready to go skiing, but he has two problems: 1) no snow and 2) no hill. Luckily, Bunny Slopes...
January 27, 2017
Linkubator Roundup: Week of January 22 2017
Being a librarian is a political act– one that takes as its identity radical inclusivity, and which strives to help everyone in a community meet their information needs. It values accurate information and free and open access for everyone. These values are under attack in the most blatant way we’ve seen in our lifetimes, but it’s facile to suggest that “the resistance starts now.” Just by being librarians, we are fundamentally part of resistance to systemic ignorance and intolerance. Think h...
January 24, 2017
The Labs @ CLP: The Music Department Gets Seriously Synthesized
Miss Irene Millen and Mrs. Ida Reed during the early days of the Music Department
by Tara Goe
The Music Department at the Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh celebrated its 75th anniversary a few years back. It’s recognized as one of the largest and most diverse music collections housed in a public library, offering everything from books and music scores, to sound recordings, periodicals, as well as numerous special collections and resources related to the ongoing history of music in Pittsburgh....
January 20, 2017
Linkubator Roundup: Week of January 15 2017
Hello Hello. This was a shit week, not gonna lie. Things we care about are under fire. We continue to do what we can with what we have– keep an eye out for new features that respond to our Inclusive Creativity call, and consider submitting your own.
~Erinn
Top Features We are enthralled with the site-specific installations by Anne Wu, now on display at the Midmanhattan Library’sCorner Room. We love these intensely personal, international artist books from featured artist, Ioulia Akhmadeeva....
