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November 8, 2016
Erased from FYE: Designing a First Year Experience Mobile Game at Pearsall Library
by Ian Boucher
When I started my first part-time library job at North Carolina Wesleyan College, one of my duties was to create video tutorials introducing library users to the website and topics like plagiarism and scholarly journals. As I learned about user motivation and engagement during my MLIS program, I became interested in video game tutorials. For some topics, like accessing resources, a video is generally preferable for quick reference, but for conveying a concept like plagiarism,...
November 3, 2016
Linkubator Roundup: Week of October 31, 2016
This week kicked off with the makery awesomeness of Halloween (who doesn’t love a holiday with a handmade premise?), and between news from the We Need Diverse Books universe to the Cubs winning the World Series, it just kept getting better!
We’re sending you good vibes for the weekend and looking to more great features in the month ahead!
Cheers! Erinn
November 2, 2016
Book to Boogie: The Color Monster: A Pop-Up Book of Feelings
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
Let me introduce you to my friend the color monster. His feelings are all jumbled up, but we can fix that. W...
October 27, 2016
Library Takeover at Madison Public Library: An Introduction
by Laura Damon-Moore
Over the next several months we’ll be sharing a program from the Community Engagement team at Madison Public Library in Madison, Wisconsin. Made possible by a significant grant from the Madison Public Library Foundation, and inspired by an original idea from Apples & Snakes and Half-Moon Theatre (you can read all about that program on the LAIP!), Library Takeover at Madison Public Library is designed to be a platform for community members (in this case, adults rather than...
October 26, 2016
Elisa Lee & Adam Hinshaw in Residence at University of Technology Sydney Library
This feature first appeared on the LAIP in October 2015.
We are very pleased to welcome artists Elisa Lee and Adam Hinshaw to the site today. Elisa and Adam were the 2014 artists-in-residence at the University of Technology Sydney Library (check out our writeup on Chris Gaul, UTS Library’s 2012 artist-in-residence), where the duo’s work investigates the Library Retrieval System. ~Laura
From the UTS Library website:
The LRS is UTS Library’s state-of-the-art underground storage system, which st...
October 25, 2016
3D Printed Bookmarks
by Michael Cherry, Teen & Youth LibrarianEvansville Vanderburgh Public Library
3D printed bookmarks are a fun and easy project for librarians interested in 3D printing. They are a great way to introduce patrons to computer-aided design (CAD) and don’t require as many light years to 3D print. Their quirkiness will appeal to technophobes and gadget enthusiasts alike. Moreover, they are a unique, outside-the-box project that will engage teenagers, while making a fun Teen Read Week or teen book...
October 21, 2016
Linkubator Roundup: Week of October 16, 2016
Hello, friends!
It’s time to do the roundup of the best of theweb this week at the intersection of libraries + creativity. As always, we’re glad you’re here!
If you’re an artist, maker or other creative person who uses the library to further your creative goals, or if you work in a library that supports creative practice, we’d love to hear from you.
Cheers!
Erinn
Top Features This week, we heard from the folks at Vanderbilt University Library, where they’ve created a comprehensive, curriculu...October 20, 2016
Get your community on the same page! NEA Big Read grants available
We’re posting this on behalf of the NEA Big Read, a program through Arts Midwest. This continues to be a great platform for engaging communities around a common read (p.s.–check out the NEA Big Read’s teacher resources to find some hands-on creative projects to incorporate into your Big Read programming!). ~Laura
Application deadline:January 26, 2017
NEA Big Read is accepting applications from non-profit organizations to develop community-wide reading programs between September 2017 and Jun...
October 18, 2016
The Campus Curates at Vanderbilt University Library
Wall Graphic for The Campus Curates; photo by Amy Bridgeman
by Celia Walker, Director of Special Projects,Vanderbilt University Libraries
Vanderbilt University’s libraries revamped their exhibition program in 2010 in conjunction with a renovation to the 1941 Central Library. Inset exhibition cases were installed in the main lobby, replacing card catalogs that had not been updated for decades, along with pedestal cases in the lobby and second floor Gallery. Nine interactive touchscreens, an ex...
October 13, 2016
Linkubator Roundup: Week of October 9, 2016
Well, it’s Friday, and in addition to needing the weekend pronto, I also need to look back on the past week of work here at the Incubator.
It was a pretty normal week of features and fun on the web, butit was also an important one: one of our writers– who chose to remain anonymous at this time– shared their story of organizing a creative and community-building response to #BlackLivesMatter in their academic library for the new schoolyear. It’s the first time we’ve shared a #BlackLivesMatter-s...
