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Linkubator Friday Roundup | The New Year Edition

Welcome back dear friends! We enjoyed a long break, but now we’re ready to get back in the swing on things! Whether you’re heading to Boston for Midwinter or not, here are some great links to brighten your day!

On the site:

Our latest Book to Boogie post features one of my all time favorite topics: ninjas! Read about the amazingCommunity Art Project at Amityville Public Library!

Other news:

The New York Public Library just released over 180,000 digital images in thepublic domain. We reache...

Community Art Project at Amityville Public Library

Today, we’ve got a great interview with Ann Hofbauer about a clever solution to a space problem in her library– and how it turned into an incredible community art show. She’s got lots of tips and tricks to share. Enjoy! ~Erinn
Library as Incubator Project (LAIP): Tell us a little bit about how this community project got started.

Ann Hofbauer (AH):The original problem we were working to solve was the lack of formal gallery spaces both at the library and in the community coupled with a high com...

Book to Boogie: Ninja!

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 Julie Dietzel-Glair

Being a ninja requires a special costume (dad’s tie), an unbreakable rope (jump rope), and the abilit...

Night Light at the Bubbler @ Madison Public Library

This post originally appeared on the LAIP in December, 2014.

A new installment in our video series on theLibrary as Incubator Project YouTube Channelin partnership with The Bubbler at Madison Public Library. Today,an interview with artist in residence Justin Bitner about his take on the monthly Night Light late night programming series at the library– book-themed artist-driven Pinewood Derby! Enjoy! ~Erinn

by S ean Ottosen and Lucas Schneider

This month in the Bubbler series we will highlight...

Johnson County Library’s Listen Local Project: An Update

by Bryan Voell

Since its inception in January 2015, Johnson County Library’s Listen Local project has featured more than fifty of the Kansas City area’s finest songwriters, composers and musical noisemakers. As I wrote back in March 2015, the overarching goal of Listen Local is to help educate our community on the breadth of talent in our collective backyards – everything from rock, pop, folk and blues to contemporary classical, experimental, electronic, hip-hop and jazz – and to do this in...

Aesthetics of Research at Columbia College Library

Today’s feature comes to us from Kristy Bowen, Co-Curator of the Aesthetics of Research project at Columbia College Library in Chicago. We were so excited to hear about this project, which explores the library as an incubator for creativity through exhibitions, events, and other “shenanigans” as Kristy says! Enjoy!~Laura

by Kristy Bowen

Initiated in early 2014, The Aesthetics of Research, in residence at the Columbia College Chicago Library, is an ongoing series of exhibits, events, and other...

Art(work) in the 21st Century Library

Screenshot: Capital City’s discovery platform, created with MUSICat

by Kelly Hiser andLisa Hollenbach

It’s no secret to readers of the Library as Incubator Project that libraries today are engaging with art and artists in new and exciting ways. Indeed, LAIP and The Artist’s Library: A Field Guideare influential sources in this space, promoting projects and recommending best practices. We’ve seen libraries become publishers (like the Provincetown Public Press)and art galleries (like Edmonton...

Linkubator Round-up | December 14-18

We’re getting ready for winter break here at LAIP, so things will be a little quieterin our corner of the internetfor a couple weeks. But before we go, I’ll leave you with a round-up of all the recent cool things!

New features:

Our friendBrandon Monokian shares the trailer for his new film, Happy Yummy Chicken! The latest post in our library-museum connection series looks at bringing local students in the door! We look at digital projections from theGlasgow School of Art’s Hatchery

Fun stuf...

Hatchery Highlights: Digital Projections

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 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

Digital Projections

In 2014, students on the Digital Culture undergraduate programme at Glasgow School of Art were set a project to stage a digi...

Trailer: Brandon Monokian’s “Happy Yummy Chicken”

We are thrilled to share an interview with Brandon Monokian, theatre artist, writer, and library-incubated extraordinaire. If you haven’t heard of him, it’s time to read up, because he just wrote, produced, and stared in a new film called Happy Yummy Chickenwith an exciting cast you will most certainly recognize from your favorite movies and TV shows.Enjoy! Erinn

Ramona Tim Kee, Bonnie Kelly, and Megan Greener

Library as Incubator Project (LAIP): So, this is your first film! Congratulations!...