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The Labs @ CLP series: Making Room for Music Recording in the Library

The Labs @ CLP has been around for four years now, working to better integrate mentorship and maker-centered learning into our programs and services. If you read some of our early blog entries about the development of the program, you’ll know that programming was designed in a very prescribed way: one workshop and one Open Lab at each site each week. We were focused on introducing youth to opportunities for making and experimentation. Deeper dives would come later.

It was a useful way to get...

Local Music Projects Survey: Physical Collections

This is Part 1 of a two-part series in our local music survey brought to us by LAIP writer Bryan Voell. Check back next week for Part 2, which will feature digital music collections and other local music resources produced by 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, lo...

Featuring: Ellen Ziegler

Ellen Ziegler’s extraordinary book art was what made us reach out, but her wonderful collaborative projects truly embody the library-as-incubator philosophy. Enjoy! ~Erinn

Library as Incubator Project (LAIP): Tell us a little bit about yourself and your work. Ellen Ziegler (EZ):I went to Antioch College; some of my professors there were students atBlack Mountain Collegewith John Cage, Josef and Anni Albers, Jacob Lawrence, Merce Cunningham,Robert Motherwell, and many other seminal avant-gar...

Book to Boogie: Pete the Cat and His Magic Sunglasses

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 Liz Vacco

At a professional development session a little while back, several elementary school teachers mentioned the Pete...

Audio Storytelling at DC Public Library

This feature was originally published on the Incubator on August 22, 2014.

DC Public Library has a new space for digital projects and someincredible folks working to connect people withone another,information, and the tools to tell their own stories. Peter Timko reached out to share the workshop series he’s developed, drawing on the library’s resources and his own skills in audio production. Readon to learn more about what he’s up to and download handouts he created for the course. Enjoy! ~Er...

Temple University Libraries’ Artist-in-Residence Series: An Introduction

by Nicole Restaino

I’m delighted to shareTemple University Libraries’ Artist-in-Residence Series as we prepare to launch the initiative’s third iteration. This month, I’ll be providing background on our libraries, our programming, and how the artist-in-residence project fits into our overall programming strategy here at Temple University in Philadelphia, PA.

First, a bit about who we are and our Beyond the Page public programming series. Temple University Libraries serve our university commu...

The Idea Studio at Fond du Lac Public Library

Today we’re thrilled to host Mel Kolstad, artist and library lover, who tells us about the brand new Idea Studio at the Fond du Lac Public Library. Enjoy!

by Mel Kolstad

After nearly three years of planning, grant writing and building, Idea Studio is finally a reality, and Fond du Lac has its very own makerspace! We celebrated our Grand Opening on Saturday, July 23, and had about 400 people walk through. It was a huge success!

Back in late 2013, Fond du Lac Public Library director Jon-Mark B...

“The Wesleyan Critics:” A Film Analysis Program Premieres at North Carolina Wesleyan College

by Ian Boucher

While Web 2.0 has brought out more voices, many others nevertheless remain spectators against the vast theater of bloggers whose posts are gospel, where deciphering experts from laypeople and all the biases and emotions in between is an afterthought. Creativity begins with voice, and, whether through individual research or discussion, a library is the perfect place to incubate that.

Based on a survey I conducted at North Carolina Wesleyan College’s Pearsall Library in Spring 2...

The Tiny Book Show on Summer Tour

by Laura Damon-Moore

A couple of years ago, I wrote about Maya Stein and Amy Tingle, a creative duo who founded the Creativity Caravan (formerly known as Food for the Soul Train), with a mission to “build community through creative action, and to deliver creative experiences to people everywhere.” In the summer of 2014, Amy and Maya visited the Eager Free Public Library on their Type Rider II tour for a community Poetry Picnic. This year they are on the road again, this time with a1965 Covere...

An Introduction to the Yahara Music Library

This post was originally published on August 14, 2014.

Manylibraries are finding ways to share community-created content and provide their patrons with access to exciting new writing, music, and art. Not only do these efforts support local artists, they also create unique collections, many of them digital. I’m excited to introduce Kelly Hiser to the site today to share her work on one such project: the Yahara Music Library. Enjoy! ~Erinn

by Kelly Hiser

The Yahara Music Libraryis an online co...