I came across a couple of artists in the past few weeks that are creating wonderful artwork using books as props. The first is Nina Katchadourian, an artist I discovered through Brain Pickings. In her Sorted Books series, Katchadourian goes to various libraries and uses books in the stacks to create intriguing and amusing phrases. [...]
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Monthly Archives: May 2010
May 24
Let Amazon take care of it
Last week, Donald Barclay posted a much lauded article on the American Libraries website discussing the need in academic libraries to move part of their collections off-site because of space issues. Those that resist this move (faculty, students, and alumni) often point to the importance of browsing as a facilitator of exploratory learning. Barclay postulates [...]
May 06
Twitter–A Love Affair?
Twitter and I didn’t used to get along. I wanted to use it. I wanted to like it. But it just didn’t work for me. At first… While brevity was good, I yearned for substance found more in blogs than in 140 character tweets. I also found it unnecessarily difficult to follow a conversation–something Facebook [...]
May 04
The Art of Recommending a Good Book
Along with the wonderful video of all the paintings in the MoMA, The Centered Librarian also directed me towards an interesting book recommendation tool, The Book Seer. I was initially drawn to the site because of its striking design, but became curious about the method used to obtain these suggested titles. Apparently, The Book Seer [...]
May 02
Every Painting in the MoMA in 2 minutes
This video was posted last week on The Centered Librarian blog–a great blog with contributions from a handful of people focusing on library innovation and technology. I highly suggest you check out their other posts to discover delightful library and non-library tidbits such as this:
