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October 13, 2016
Quick and Dirty Marketing for Your Library’s Arts Programming
Today’s writeup comes to us from Kristy Bowen from Columbia College Chicago Library. Kristy has some great ideas and tips for marketing your arts programming (hint: use lots of visuals!) and is applicable to public, academic, and school libraries alike! Enjoy!Laura
by Kristy Bowen
Planning a reading series or open-mic night among the stacks? Hosting a Maker Lab workshop? Looking to promote your library’s art exhibit? Hoping to spread the word on upcoming music performances or storytelling tim...
October 11, 2016
Temple University Libraries’ Artist-in-Residence Series: 2014 and 2015 Seasons with micha cárdenas and Angela Washko
Photo Credit: micha cardenas
by Nicole Restaino
Thanks for tuning into the second post on Temple University Libraries artist-in-residence program (read the first post in the series). I am looking forward to telling you a little bit more about the work of our 2014 and 2015 featured artists, micha cárdenas and Angela Washko, respectively. The stories of their engagements at Temple will also give you a better understanding of the specific components involved in selecting, recruiting, and hosting...
October 7, 2016
Linkubator: Week of October 2nd 2016
Hello, hello and welcome to the weekly Linkubator!
This is where we share the best content from the Library as Incubator website– our favorite features and conversations with artists and librarians– and the best links from around the web this week in Libraryland.
So if you’ve had a hectic week and missed our feed, this here is the re-cap version.Enjoy!
~Erinn
Top features
This week, we heard from our friends at Rabble / MusicCAT, who just launched a killer new local music collection at Seatt...
October 6, 2016
Banned Books Trading Cards at Chapel Hill Public Library, 2016
Today we have a really special roundup to share with you–the Chapel Hill Public Library is back on the LAIP with a brand-new pack of trading cards to commemorate Banned Books Week. The trading cards, which are the product of a partnership between CHPL and the Chapel Hill Division of Cultural Arts, are designed by local artists and this year included a youth prize and a juried selection.
For more information about the trading cards project as well as about the banned books they feature, visit...
October 5, 2016
Book to Boogie: City Shapes
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 Amy Seto Forrester
Today we’ll take a look at Diana Murray and Bryan Collier’s joyous new book, City Shapes. Murray’s rhym...
October 4, 2016
Why Libraries Matter: My Experience Planning a Black Lives Matter Program
Editor’s Note: This piece is being posted anonymously, both for the contributor’s sake and for the college where he works. Images, unfortunately, cannot be shared at this time. If other librarians out there would be interested in any of the research materials used in this program, or in contacting the contributor for any further insights or assistance, please do not hesitate to contactus at libraryasincubatorproject@gmail.com
A crowd of community members gather outside the Governor’s Residenc...
September 29, 2016
Wildcards and fugitives: staff exhibition at the State Library Victoria
The State Library of Victoriahas a significant model of supporting staff creativity, both through a Residency program, and through staff exhibitions as well! Enjoy! Erinn
Melbourne Mayhem, by Andrew McConville, collage. (image: Andrew McConville)
by Dominique Dunstan, Curator
The State Library of Victoriais a great cultural institution and not surprisingly there are many talented people working here, including writers, artists and musicians. Some of their work can be found in the library’s co...
September 28, 2016
State Library of Queensland: Memory Squad!
This year we have the distinct pleasure of hosting updates from Dr. Matt Finch, with whom we’ve worked on a number of LAIP features, as he serves as Creative in Residence at the State Library of Queensland, Australia. This feature digs into history, memory, and what it means to explore the past in a library.
by Matt Finch
My previous Incubatorcolumns have looked at programming and regional outreach at the State Library of Queensland (SLQ), an Australian institution serving a territory three t...
September 27, 2016
The Seattle Public Library and Rabble Launch PlayBack
The PlayBack homepage
by Andrew Harbison and Kelly Hiser
The Seattle Public Library launched PlayBack just over a month ago with 50 incredible albums by Seattle’s musicians, joining libraries in Madison and Edmonton as the latest to build a local music collection using Rabble’s MUSICat platform.
From the start, the Seattle community has wholeheartedly embraced PlayBack. The library received a flood of submissions—nearly 300 albums—during an open call to local musicians. Seattle is an active a...
September 22, 2016
Local Music Projects Survey: Digital Collections & Blogs
This is Part 2 of a two-part series in our local music survey brought to us by LAIP writer Bryan Voell. Part 1 featured physical collections of local music in public libraries.
by Bryan Voell
What is ‘local music’? It’s being defined and redefined everyday by an increasing number of public libraries. From analog archives documenting a region’s musical history to purely digital collections of streaming music accessible by everyone, local music collections are reaching wide audiences. While by...
