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June 19, 2015
Friday Linkubator Roundup | June 12 – 18
Bringing you the most interesting news from home and abroad on the internet! We recommend enjoying this week’s Linkubator with a cool drink on hand, possibly between your weekend reading sessions. Or, you know, as a break from your work. Have a good one!
“Elementia” issue 12.
New features:
Check out the good work being done by the IDEA Lab intern team at San Diego Public Library! A standing ovation for all makerspace intern programs. In that vein, how on earth do you train library staff on t...
June 18, 2015
Johnson County Library’s elementia: A Short History of Collaboration & Inspiration
by Bryan Voell
Johnson County (Kansas) Library’s elementia publication showcases the artistic and poetic talents of local teens. Published annually since the fall of 2005, it was born from the original visions of Teen Librarian Angel Dew in conjunction with Johnson County Library’s Young Adult Advisory Council (YAAC), Teen Poetry Café and other teen writing programs. The question at the heart of its inception was simple: How can we meaningfully engage with young adults within the overall miss...
June 17, 2015
CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS: Artist Residencies in Libraries
We got a great question via Twitter several weeks ago about whether we knew of a comprehensive list of academic, public, and special libraries and archives that currently host or are interested in hosting artists in residence. While the LAIP features library artists in residence on a regular basis(and we know that people use these features to develop their own library artist in residence programs!)we’d like to expand this to become a more formal list of libraries who support artists in reside...
June 16, 2015
Learning with The Labs: professional development for all staff
We’ve been documenting the evolution of The Labs at Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh since 2012, when the project had just secured a pilot grant. It’s all grown up now, and has grown up into a thoughtful and responsive makerspace model that adds real value to to the conversation. Check out the whole series on The Labs @ CLP. Enjoy! ~Erinn
by Corey Wittig
It’s rare in library land (at least in my experience) that new programs and services feel truly ready when the day for comes for implementati...
Ulysses Mapped by Leopold’s Day
This post was originally published June 2012.
Last week we had the pleasure of hosting Stephen Crowe’s work on “Wake in Progress,” a series of illustrations and writings inspired by James Joyce’s Finnegans Wake. Today we feature another piece of art lifted right from the text of Joyce’s Ulysses. – Laura
Inspired by the journey of Leopold Bloom through Dublin on June 16th, 1904, Leopold’s Day have released a beautifully designed limited edition map of Dublin city formed purely from the people,...
June 15, 2015
SDPL Labs: The IDEA Lab Tech Team Internship
Our friends Monnee Tong andUyen Tran at San Diego Public Library are the fearless teen (and tech!) advocates behind our series on the SDPL IDEA Lab. Today, Uyenshares the killer internship program that helpspromote theLab. Enjoy! ~Erinn
The IDEA Lab Tech Team Interns, students from e3 Civic High School, are paid teen interns who support and promote the IDEA Lab and San Diego Public Library.
By Monnee Tong
What song do you like with this opening sequence? How do I draw someone’s finger pointin...
June 12, 2015
Friday Linkubator Roundup | June 5 – 11
We’re in full summer mode now! Sadly, that doesn’t mean we’re on the beach sipping cool drinks and relaxing.We’re still working, but it means we get to bring you all these great links from this week. Enjoy!
New features:
June 11, 2015
Participatory Drama and Literary Exploration at Craig High School
by Laura Damon-Moore
At the beginning of 2015 we established, with graduate students from the UW-Madison Interdisciplinary Theatre Studies program, a new project under the IArtLibraries “umbrella” called UnBound Players. The goal for this project is to activate libraries as performance spaces and to explore literary and technological themes through participatory drama workshops and more traditional performances.
In May UnBound Players facilitated the first Participatory Drama and Literary Exp...
June 10, 2015
A Garden of Poetry at Branksome Hall Asia
We love to hear about arts-incubating programs that were inspired by programs or ideas shared on the Library as Incubator Project, such as the Garden of Poetry at Branksome Hall Asia, an all-girl international boarding school in Korea. The teacher-librarian, Taryn Berghuis, got the idea in part from the PoeTree installation at Lawrence Public Library. Read on for how the program came to be! ~Laura
The poetry garden outside of the Branksome Hall Asia school library.
Library as Incubator Proje...
June 9, 2015
The library-museum connection: from paper to glass
The Corning Museum Of Glass is a special place where librarians, curators, artists, and educators all work together to share the history and craft of glass making. Rebecca Hopman’s series on her work at the CMOG’s Rakow Research Library is anexcellent template for creating and sustaining the library-as-incubator. Enjoy! ~Erinn
The library-museum connection: from paper to glassby Rebecca Hopman
What strikes you about the artwork below? Both show the same idea, one on paper and one in glass. H...
