Welcoming Ryan Claringbole to the LaIP!
It is my pleasure to announce that the Library as Incubator Project is expanding to include Ryan Claringbole, who joins the team as a feature writer/future @IArtLibraries social media handler. We first connected with Ryan on Twitter (catch him @LibrarianRy) last year and it’s great to be able to work with him in person now...
Book update: April
In case you missed our big news post at the end of March, the Library as Incubator Project team is hard at work on a book! We’re teaming up with Coffee House Press (a lovely little publishing house in Minneapolis) to bring you The Library as Incubator Project’s Guide to the Artist’s Library: A workbook for creative...
Big news: the Library as Incubator Project Book!
We are thrilled to share some fantastic news with you all. Get out your crayons, your colored pencils, your piles of scratch paper – because we’re working with the wonderful Coffee House Press in Minneapolis to publish a book! The book is tentatively titled The Library as Incubator Project’s Guide to the Artist’s Library: a workbook...
The LAIP at work: how do you use this website/project?
Hello, lovely readers – librarians, artists, and interested folks! We’re doing a bit of housekeeping this month and I’d like to pose a question today to all of you. How do you use the Library as Incubator Project? We’d really like to hear from you if you’ve: Discovered a new collection here that is of...
Year in Review: 2012
I have the great privilege of writing up the first “Year in Review” post for the first full year of the Library as Incubator Project! And what a year it was. We published 336 posts last year, including 63 features on Artists (including visual artists, photographers, multimedia artists, and installation artists); 38 posts in our...
A { very } merry Christmas Eve
The LaIP team is off celebrating a week of holiday happenings (and taking a much-needed break) so we thought we’d hearken back to last year’s Christmas Eve post and bring you a couple of snapshots from our lives as they are today. Forgive us if things are quiet around Twitter, Facebook, and Pinterest in the...
Indiegogo Week 5: We came to the end
Six weeks, 80+ funders, $7,000+ raised, hundreds of shares on Twitter and Facebook…we are absolutely blown away by the response to our first-ever Indiegogo campaign! A thousand thank-yous to everyone who donated, shared, and championed our cause during the last six weeks. We are incredibly humbled by the support we’ve received from all over the...
Join our Indiegogo Campaign!
If we have more time to work on the project, we’ll be able to do a lot more to make the library an experience. Welcome to the official launch of our IArtLibraries Indiegogo fundraising campaign! Earlier this week, Laura shared the big news about our decision to raise funds for the Library as Incubator Project. In...
Big news about the Library as Incubator Project
The Library as Incubator Project team has some big news to share today. After much deliberation about the future of the project, and how we want to incorporate this work into our professional and personal lives, we’ve decided to take a big step forward – with your help. This week we launch an IndieGoGo campaign...
Home Movie Day 2012 at Madison Public Library
Home Movie Day! What a fantastic idea–culture isn’t just the stuff that the studios make, it’s what we make of it. Content isn’t king, conversation is– and what better conversation-starters than the significant moments of your neighbors’ lives? ~Cory Doctorow Are you the person in your family who always had a camcorder pressed to your...
Music History: The Chuck Brown /Go-Go Archive at DC Public Library
by Erinn Batykefer As any music buff knows, a light went out this past May when Chuck Brown, the “godfather of Go-go,” died at Johns Hopkins Hospital at the age of 75. Go-go is something of a DC phenomenon; the genre developed in the 70s and has evolved into a hip-shaking blend of funk, R&B,...
Westport Library Announces Maker Space
It has been an active couple of weeks as far as library makerspaces are concerned. We were so excited to see this news release pop up in the Library as Incubator Project email inbox last week, and can’t wait to learn more about the Westport Library’s new space for making, learning, and idea incubating! –...
