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March 8, 2016
Rain Barrel Art at the Evansville Vanderburgh Public Library
Teen barrel painted with the Youth Care Center
by Michael Cherry
For the past two years, the Evansville Vanderburgh Public Library (EVPL) has participated in a community rain barrel project called “Every Drop Counts.” The City Engineer’s Office, in partnership with Coca Cola, generously donated 55 gallon plastic drums that were converted into painted rain barrels. Community organizations, schools, and nonprofits were invited to decorate the barrels as part of a stormwater management initiativ...
March 5, 2016
Linkubator Roundup
In the whirlwind of the beginning of March, we have a lot of fun things going on!
On the site:
Why aren’t adults allowed to be creative? A look at creative adult programming!
A great new title for the Book to Boogie collection! A sneak peek preview of the SPINE festival! In other news:
Erinn and Holly are getting ready for an awesome workshop onIncubating Creativity & Imagination in the Library at the Computers in Libraries conference!Around the web:
Made at NYPL features writers who ha...March 3, 2016
SPINE Festival Returns for Spring 2016
We have a super fun event to preview today–the SPINE Festival, produced by Apples and Snakes, a UK performance poetry and spoken word collective, for libraries in several London boroughs. We’ll have a follow-up post about the festival in a couple of weeks! Thanks to Kaysha Woollery for working with us to spread the word about this event. ~Laura
This is it.
It’s here.
SPINE Festival is back for another year!
3 days. 14 boroughs. Endless creative ideas. Apples and Snakes are engaging children,...
March 2, 2016
Book to Boogie: “The Little Yellow Leaf”
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
I recently discovered The Little Yellow Leaf by Carin Berger. What I love about this book—especially in the cont...
March 1, 2016
Why aren’t adults allowed to be creative?
Adult programs tend to have a lot more to do with learning than they do with making. How do we balance the scales of creative programming to give our older patrons more opportunities to create?
photo via pixabay
by Ally Blumenfeld
If it seems like children typically have more fun in the library than adults do, it’s probably true. Where are all the art supplies in the library? In the Children’s Department, of course! And who’s waiting to get on a public computer to print out tax forms? Adults....
February 26, 2016
Friday Linkubator Roundup
This week on the site:
Other news:
Laura talks about the Book to Art Club over on the Demco blog.Around the internet:
Check out these updates from the IT guy at Hogwarts. Art as activism! This artist makes ISIS-destroyed art available to download and 3D print. The world’s biggest visual archive for architecture features 85,000-plus digital images....February 25, 2016
CHP in the Stacks: The Givens Collection
Today’s feature is brought to us by Jay Peterson from Coffee House Press’ CHP in the Stacks, the publishing company’s creative-in-residence program. One of their most recent residencies is with the Givens Collection of African American Literature at the University of Minnesota. Part of the residency explores a wonderful and important new search tool to help researchers mine information related to African American history. ~Laura
Since early November 2015, artists Erin Sharkey and Junauda...
February 24, 2016
We’re Presenting at SXSW Interactive!
If you’re hitting up SXSW Interactive this year, we have some fun news: Laura from the Library as Incubator Project and our good friend Trent Miller from The Bubbler at Madison Public Library will be presenting on libraries as creative spaces on Sunday, March 13, at 12:30 p.m.
Joshua Morrison, a student at the Texas State University School of Journalism and Mass Communication, was kind enough to interview Laura and Trent prior to their presentation. Check out the interview.
We’re excited to...
February 23, 2016
Pop des Fleurs Winter Pop-up Garden: Still Poppin’
Install of a Pop des Fleurs garden at Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh – Lawrenceville.
bySuzy Waldo
In my last post I wrote about how the beautiful Pop des Fleurs project came to Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh- South Side and then became a system-wide project. If I had a nickel for every time I thought to myself, “What were you thinking?!?” I could buy a new cardigan.
If I had a nickel for every time I thought to myself, “What were you thinking?!?” I could buy a new cardigan.
I kid, I kid. It...
February 19, 2016
Friday Linkubator Roundup
This week on the site:
Check out the latest from Hatchery Highlights! Artist Aileen Bassis shares her work!In other news:
Our very own Laura previews her SXSW talk about libraries as creative hubs!Fun around the web:
NBD, but the Globe Theatre is hiring a librarian! New job anyone?
Where in London am I? Follow along on this map of TV show locations! Need some new decor? NASA is giving away vintage inspired travel posters! This man’s quest to read and review the world. Mother of pearl b...
