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Featuring: Independent bookbinder, Yohana Doudoux

Handbound books are artworks, and we love learning from bookbinders how they interpret the contents of a book in the cover. Yohana Doudoux’ approach is nuanced and lovely– and her vision for an ideal library is a treat! Enjoy. ~Erinn

Library as Incubator Project (LAIP): Tell us a little bit about yourself and your work.

Yohana Doudoux (YD): I studied art history at the University of Toulouse, but quickly felt the need to work with my hands. I completed a degree of bookbinding at Tolbiac High...

smARTpass: Checking out arts and cultural programming

Minnesota-based MELSA (Metropolitan Library Service Agency) launched a new program in September that provides equitable access for their users to a wide variety of local arts and cultural programs and events. SmARTpass is an online portal of arts and culture offers, posted by arts organizations ranging from history museums to theatres to dance companies, that library users can reserve for free or at a discount with their library card number.

Sally Lederer, MELSA Communications Manager and le...

The Labs @ CLP: The relationships that connect youth and libraries

Sienna Cittadino began her work at Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh a couple of years back as a volunteer during Labs programming at CLP – East Liberty. She immediately displayed an easy-going way of interacting with youth and working alongside them as they explored their creative side, which helped her to get the job as Labs Mentor in Fall 2015. Before joining the Library, Sienna worked with our friends at Assemble, a phenomenal neighborhood learning space with a lot of the same ideas about wo...

Linkubator Roundup: Week of November 13, 2016

Hail, Incubator friends!

It’s Friday again, which means it’s time to review the best of the creative internet and re-visit the library-as-incubator stories we shared on the site this week. If you know oflibrary/arts programs that aim to engage and support marginalized or at-risk communities in the post-election atmosphere, please check out our Call for Submissions for 2017. We want to hear from you.

Sending you good wishes for the weekend!

Erinn

TOP FEATURES This week we heard from our frien...

Make It Take It Kits at Meridian District Library

This post originally appeared on the LAIP in November 2014.

If you’ve heard us speak at a conference or staff training, you know that the LAIP team is big on finding innovative ways to facilitate maker activities and programs even if your library does not have a traditional, permanent “makerspace.” Meridian District Library in Idaho found one way to handle this: a series of “Make It Take It” kits that patrons can check out and experiment with at home! ~Laura

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Fighting Back: Submit your stories of “Inclusive Creativity” to the 2017 Library as Incubator Project

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We at believe libraries are a place to connect and create.

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 fac...

Temple University Libraries’ Artist-in-Residence Series: Fallen Fruit’s Endless Orchard

In this, the third and final guest blog in Nicole Restaino’s series on Temple University Libraries’ artist-in-residency program, we getan exciting sneak-peek at the cross-campus collaboration they have planned for the end of the yearwith the artist collective Fallen Fruit. Enjoy! ~Erinn

by Nicole Restaino

As 2016 draws to a close, the team at Temple University Libraries is preparing for Fallen Fruitto arrive in the next few weeks, pulling together our goals of connecting the university and t...

What now? Post-election Linkubator Roundup: Week of November 7th 2016

Hello, friends.

It will come as no surprise that this week was disheartening and frightening in equal measure for us here at the Incubator. We founded our project in 2010, and for the last six years, we’ve been working to share your stories of the exciting, empowering things that can happen at the crossroads of creativity and libraries– stories that assume our diverse communities are worthy of egalitarian space and access to the resources to make their creative ideas reality.

So we’ve str...

NaNoWriMo at Morse Institute Library

Happy National Novel Writing Month! To celebrate, we’re featuring a handful of libraries to hear what they have going for writers in their communities this month. Today we hear from Shannon Astolfi, who works in the Reference Department at the Morse Institute Library in Natick, MA. Shannon gives us a breakdown of the programs on the library’s schedule this month.~Laura

This countdown kept library users engaged in the days leading up to NaNoWriMo. Designed by Dave Bartos for Morse Institute Li...

Sharing Art Created in Juvenile Justice Spaces

This post originally appeared on the LAIP in November 2014.

Kelly Hiser is back on the site today to share more info on sharing community created content a the library– this time taking a closer look at teen artwork generated in juvenile justice programs. Be sure to take a look at the Terms of Servicedocuments Kelly shares, and check out all of her postsin this seriesHERE.~Erinn

Avatar = Cat from The Bubbler on Vimeo.

by Kelly Hiser

Some of the most incredible art created in the Madison Publ...