The Picture Collection at the NYPL
by Laura Damon-Moore If you’ve followed the Library as Incubator Project for a while, you know that we’re unabashed fans of the image holdings at the New York Public Library. Which is why it’s a real treat today to present this feature on the Picture Collection at the NYPL. A special thank you to Billy...
MetPublications Online
by Erinn Batykefer If you enjoyed last year’s article, 65 Guggenheim Exhibition Catalogs Online, you’re in for a treat! MetPublications is a portal to the publishing program of The Metropolitan Museum of Art. Since the museum was founded in 1870, the Met has published collection guides and catalogues that explore the works in the museum’s...
Exploring the Biodiversity Heritage Library
Since we have a big year-end post on the docket for Monday, I thought it’d be fun to share a fantastic source of inspiration in lieu of the traditional weekly Linkubator (don’t worry – a roundup of our favorite links will return next Sunday). The Biodiversity Heritage Library is our featured resource today, and boy,...
Beatrix Potter: The Picture Letters at The Morgan Library & Museum
by Rebecca Rubenstein Beatrix Potter’s personality shines through in the exhibition, “Beatrix Potter: The Picture Letters” at The Morgan Library & Museum. The work is gathered from materials in the Morgan’s collection, the Cotsen Children’s Library at Princeton University, the Victoria and Albert Museum, and holdings from private collections. Visitors are taken on the journeys...
The Library Project by Temporary Services
It is with great pleasure today that we host Temporary Services, a public art group based in Chicago, Copenhagen, and Philadelphia. They talk with us about The Library Project, a fascinating public exhibition whose covert playground is on the shelves of Chicago’s Harold Washington Library. In his essay about The Library Project, Marc Fischer of...
The Brooklyn Art Library | An Interview with the Head Librarian
We’re delighted to have Rebecca Rubenstein on board as a Feature Writer at large for the Library as Incubator Project! This interview was conducted with Chris Heuberger, Head Librarian of Brooklyn Art Library in November 2012. A portion of the discussion can be seen in Rebecca’s feature on the Sketchbook Project. Enjoy! ~Erinn . The Brooklyn Art...
The creation of beauty is Art
This is the third post in a series of features on historic book bindings, written for the Library as Incubator Project by Andrea Reithmayr, Special Collections Librarian and the Rare Book Conservator at the University of Rochester River Campus Libraries. Unless otherwise noted, all bindings pictured are from the University of Rochester’s Dept. of Rare Books...
The Sketchbook Project at Brooklyn Art Library
We’re delighted to have Rebecca Rubenstein on board as a Feature Writer at large for the Library as Incubator Project, especially because she is both a librarian and a visual artist! She lives and works in New York City, and we’re very happy to have her keen eye looking out for the best arts-incubating libraries...
A Year of Inspiring Illustrations
Today we’re taking a look at a fantastic blog series happening at Echoes from the Vault, the blog for the Special Collections department of the University of St. Andrews. The blog as a whole does a great job of showcasing the unique holdings of the university’s special collections, but we’re especially loving the 52 Weeks...
Thinking Pink at the VCUQatar Library
I had the pleasure of connecting with an art librarian who lives in Qatar at ALA Annual this year, and really enjoyed the opportunity to learn about the innovative ways librarians are working to incubate the arts all over the globe. To support Breast Cancer Awareness Month, the Main Library at VCUQatar’s School of Art...
“A Contest of Sunbeams”: the Literary Annuals
by Andrea Reithmayr I’m very pleased to have the opportunity to write a monthly column for the Incubator Project. My goal is to expand on the information in Beauty for Commerce: Publishers’ Bindings 1830-1910 and to share my enthusiasm for this wonderful period in the history of the book. This first entry will be a...
The Library as Platypus: On the Dual Nature of the Reanimation Library
by Andrew Beccone In January of this year I was invited to write a piece about the Reanimation Library for Library as Incubator. In the course of events, time got away from me and I wasn’t able to begin working on it until recently. But I encountered a problem as soon as I read the...
