Announcing Library Boing Boing at the American Library Association
Folks from the American Library Association are launching a member interest group called Library Boing Boing, and we're delighted to give our blessing. From Jenny Levine's announcement, at the ALA's...
View ArticleBe a Book Giver on World Book Night
This is the first post from the fine folks of the American Library Association, which recently launched a member interest group called Library Boing Boing. They will be posting now and again as...
View ArticleBookless at Madison Public Library
Ever since fire consumed the Library of Alexandria, bibliophiles have been captivated by stories of epic endings to libraries. Madison, Wisconsin recently contributed a memorable ending, answering the...
View ArticleExpert medical help and a listening ear‐at the library
In her first week working at the Pima County Public Library, Registered Nurse Emily Pogue helped a newly-homeless woman find safe shelter and access to the medications she needed. She listened to the...
View ArticleListening to the past: NPS releases historic audio recordings
The National Park Service has released a dozen historic sound recordings originally made on wax cylinders in 1889-1890. The recording engineer, Theo Wangemann, was an assistant of Thomas Edison who...
View ArticleLibrary staircase delightfully transformed into live interactive game board
Four flights of seventy-two stairs were transformed into a giant game board using 1,200 feet of wire and 48 Internet-connected tin cans decorated with green and gold helium balloons at DIY: Physical...
View ArticleSeed Libraries Crop Up
Just as one seed can produce many seeds, one idea can change many lives. Free public libraries were revolutionary in their time because they provided access to books and knowledge that had not...
View ArticleThe Librarian and the Hot Rod Shop
What do you get when you cross a librarian with a hot-rod shop? Sounds like the beginning of a joke, but it isn’t. A provincial Libraries and Literacy grant and a directive to ‘create a mobile...
View ArticleRelease a deadly monster: a DRM-free ebook crowdfunding startup
Back in May, Cory posted about the then-brand-new website unglue.it's campaign to unlock the classic scholarly book Oral Literature in Africa through crowdfunding. That campaign was successfully...
View ArticleTake a trip through the Grateful Dead Archive Online
UC Santa Cruz launched the Grateful Dead Archive Online last Friday with tens of thousands of items. But it wouldn't be a Grateful Dead archive if all you could do was look at stuff, so you can also:...
View ArticleMaker Station in Library Parking Lot = All Kinds of Awesome
A collaboration between the Allen County Public Library in Fort Wayne, Indiana, and a local nonprofit called TekVenture has created a hub of awesome for local makers called the TekVenture Maker...
View ArticleIowa City Public Library’s Local Music Project
“If you have a library card and password, and live in Iowa City …you can download this music. You own it forever. Put it on your phone. Play it at parties. Turn it up” That’s the message on the Iowa...
View ArticleSparkTruck: Taking Making on the Road
Meet SparkTruck, an “educational build-mobile” for the twenty-first century. Dreamed up by a group of Stanford d.school students and funded through Kickstarter, SparkTruck is a mobile maker space...
View ArticleWords on the Water
Avast, mateys! If you’re a literature lover and a seafaring type, you might be surprised to find that you can satisfy both your passions at a public library. With libraries and librarians across the...
View ArticleIdea Box draws community to public library
The Idea Box at Oak Park Public Library is a new experiment in community participation and library programming that invites visitors to “explore, learn, and play.” The 9 x 13 glass-enclosed space...
View ArticleTime-Traveling Librarians from Outer Spa... from Texas
When I first heard of the Billy Pilgrim Traveling Library, a new Houston-based bookmobile venture, I felt myself get a bit unstuck in time. For one thing, I usually see “traveling library” used to...
View ArticleA Little Storm-Shelter Library
On Monday, Oct. 29, Sandy headed for the East Coast, looking to make landfall in my home state of New Jersey. Days before, my local CERT (Community Emergency Response Team) group staffed a Red Cross...
View ArticleLibrary in a Disaster Zone
Hurricane Sandy devastated some sections of New York City and did massive damage to numerous libraries in Queens. Undaunted, the amazing Queens Library sent a mobile book bus with a rapid response...
View ArticleGiant Origami Fractal
A three-dimensional, modular origami fractal has taken form for the first time in the history of the world—and perhaps the universe—at the USC Libraries in Los Angeles. Led by the libraries’ Discovery...
View ArticleNew Yorkers: help defend local libraries at June 8-9's Read In
Libraries in New York City are facing a potential $106 million cut to their budgets. Should these cuts go through, more than 60 neighborhood libraries will close. More than a thousand librarians and...
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