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June 8, 2016
Book to Boogie: “Hello, New York City!”
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 Maria Hanley
The book I choose this month — Hello, New York City! by David Walker — is one of my favorites. It’s my son’s...
June 7, 2016
LitMore Poetry Library
This post was originally published on June 23 2014
by Laura Damon-Moore
Several weeks ago we got a note from Christophe Casamassima (whose Poetry in Community project we featured on the website a couple of years ago) that said, “Because of the generous space you gave me two years ago on the website, we were inspired to bring our enormous poetry collection into circulation for the public.” Music to our ears, let me tell you! The note went on to mention the resource highlighted in today’s featu...
June 2, 2016
Brisbane Pride Choir finds a home in libraries
Lots of libraries provide a “home” for many types of arts organizations, from quilters’ guilds to writers’ groups, who do not have a permanent space for gathering. As a librarian with a performance background, I’m always personally interested when a performing arts group takes advantage of the meeting rooms and community spaces that many libraries make available to their public.
One example is the Brisbane Pride Choir, based in Brisbane Australia. The choir not only just performed a new piece...
May 31, 2016
Showing Off: The Making of an Exhibit
by Sharon Wolff
It seems to me that one of the most frustrating things about working in an institution like a museum or a library is having to coax people into your institution. It can be like pulling teeth, but the best ways to do it involve things like programming and exhibits.
But how best to go about arranging an exhibit? Believe it or not there are good ways and bad ways to do it; here are a few things to keep in consideration.
The first concern should always be the safety of the materia...
May 24, 2016
Library of Congress Prints & Photographs Online Catalog
This post was originally published on May 28 2014
Migrant Mother. Dorothea Lange, 1936. From the Farm Security collection.
by Angela Terrab
It’s a catalog! No, it’s a digital gallery! No, it’s both, and a resource guide to boot! The Library of Congress’s Prints & Photographs Online Catalog (PPOC) is a marvel of both depth and breadth, and a must-see for students, researchers, and American history buffs.
As a catalog, the PPOC displays the detailed and diligent metadata one expect of the natio...
May 20, 2016
Linkubator Roundup
New on the site:
Our latest Hatchery Highlights update on Interwoven Connections.
Are you ready for the National Week of Making?! The latest in our Public Demesne series on using public domain images. PLAYING with the Idea Exchange! Fun stuff around the web:
Remix and create with 180,000 out-of-copyright photos, maps, letters etc FREE fromNYPL! Super interesting article on the massive efforts the Royal Ontario Museum put into putting its holdings online Calling all Olympics nerds!Google St...May 19, 2016
National Week of Making (June 17-23)
An email announcement about the National Week of Making came through the LAIP inbox recently, and we want to spread the word! The Office of Science & Technology is promoting this White House initiative, and we wanted to share the following from OSTP’s Assistant Director of Making, Andrew Coy:
We are looking forward to having you join forces with us from June 17ththrough the 23rdand would love for as many others as possible get involved. Here are a few ways folks in the community are already...
May 17, 2016
Idea Exchange: Come PLAY with us!
Family discovery time
byAndrea Siemens, Coordinator, Youth Services, Idea Exchange
PLAY! We know it builds literacy, creativity, curiosity, empathy and many other life skills. In following Idea Exchange’s vision to “create an environment of curiosity and discovery through the exploration of the arts and new technologies” our spaces needed to reflect our dedication to play and discovery based learning. We know that early learning is developed through play, but it is not only children that bene...
May 12, 2016
Hatchery Highlights: Interwoven Connections
The Glasgow School of Art Library has a wonderful website, calledThe Hatchery, where staff document the artists and artworks that have been inspired by physical and digital library resources. Once a month we’ll repost a Hatchery Highlight from the GSA website. Special thanks to Duncan Chappell at the GSA Library for working with us on this series!~Laura
Interwoven Connections: The Stoddard Templeton Design Studio and Design Library, 1843-2005
This major exhibition on Glasgow’s Stoddard/Temple...
May 10, 2016
Public Demesne: Using Public Domain Images to raise funds #3
byAllana Mayer
In the first part of this series, I talked about why I chose public-domain images to stock a print-on-demand fundraising store. In the second part, I taught you some Photoshop and Illustrator basics to generate printable designs. In this part, I’ll talk about the logistics of print-on-demand platforms.
The Store
I chose Society6 as my sales platform because I’ve heard great things about the quality of their items. I also have artist-friends who use it and speak highly of it. I...
