Recipe for a Thriving Performing Arts Series: Part 1
We’re delighted to welcome Nick Demske back to the Library as Incubator Project for the next installment in his series of posts focusing on process and strategy librarians can use to implement excellent performing arts programs for their communities using a principle we call “Programming as Collection Development.” Nick’s work at Racine Public Library is...
Featuring: Parachute Poetry Library
I was so excited to find this press release from poet and writing instructor Amanda Deutch in the inbox a few weeks ago, I simply had to share. The story of an innovative artist creating a library because there was a need for one would be an inspiration on its own, but the setting– post-Hurricane...
Featuring: Provincetown Public Press
Exciting things are happening at the crossroads of self-publishing and libraries lately! We’re fascinated with the ways that libraries are working to help their communities create content, not just consume it– and how they’re collecting that content, too! This week, we chatted with Matt Clark, Director of Marketing and Program Development at Provincetown Public Library...
National Poetry Month 2013 Wrap-up
Thanks for joining us this year for National Poetry Month! All April, we shared wonderful stories from poets, libraries, and arts organizations about the power and meaning of the written word, and the ways in which it can connect communities and enrich our lives. You don’t have to be a poet or even a literature...
Featuring: The Australian Poetry Library
Earlier this year, when we were planning our National Poetry Month lineup, we were delighted to “discover” the Australian Poetry Library– it’s a wonderful resource that provides access to over 42,000 poems by 170 Australian poets. These works are available online at the Australian Poetry Library website, which is easy to search and browse. In...
Poem in Your Pocket Day at Jefferson-Madison Regional Library System
Welcome to National Poem in your Pocket Day! We’re delighted to welcome Wendy Saz to the site as part of our National Poetry Month line-up. Wendy is the Branch Manager for Crozet Library in the Jefferson-Madison Regional Library System in Charlottesville, where she launched a Poem in Your Pocket program that has become a huge outreach...
Featuring: Trong Gia Nguyen
Today, we’re delighted to feature Trong Gia Nguyen, and his impressive “Library” project– an installation that bends the idea of what a book is by re-writing famous works word for word on rice grains. Don’t miss his fascinating concepts for the “ideal library”– zero gravity reading rooms? To-scale reproductions of paintings to check out and...
Featuring: Mwatabu Okantah
Today, we feature Mwatabu Okantah, a performance poet based in Akron, Ohio, who also serves as Assistant Professor and Poet in Residence for the Department of Pan-African Studies at Kent State University. His new book, Muntu Kuntu Energy: New and Selected Poetry, is new from Chatter House Press. ~Erinn I am now able to see The Library in the same...
Featuring: Carlota Zimmerman
Today our featured artist is Carlota Zimmerman, a creativity consultant based in New York City. Here she discusses how the New York Public Library was instrumental in her development as a playwright. ~ Laura by Carlota Zimmerman I grew up in New York City in the 1980s, so I was always reading my way through the...
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...
Linkubator Sunday Roundup | December 17-23
It was a rather exciting week for those of us in the Madison, Wisconsin area as Winter Storm Draco (talk about storm naming badassery) took many of us offline or at least ushered us inside for a day or two, we wrapped up year-end projects and set off to visit our families for the holidays....
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...
