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Full-Scale Fiancée
Samuel Bernier, a designer at le FabShop, made a life-size statue of his fiancée, printing her body in parts on a MakerBot Replicator 2 and a MakerBot Replicator Z18. “Create a number system that will help you put the parts back together,” he advises. (Le FabShop via Instructables)
Creepy yet cool at the same time.
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Let’s take a bookish tour through Jamaica Plain, Massachusetts, in this edition of Literary Tourism.
If you are all done with your projects, check out Lucy Parsons Center Books!
ORGANIZING MY PERSONAL BOOKSHELVES
REORGANIZING THE LIBRARY’S
Bookish Problems
Sounds about right...
The holiday season is upon us, and Swapna shows you how to make a book wreath in this video.
Very important stuff here folks!
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A UK company called Ultrahaptics has developed a method of providing haptic feedback for holographic imagery by using ultrasonic technology. [via]
BOOKS JAMMED TIGHT ON THE SHELVES TONIGHT, NOT A CLEAR SPACE TO BE SEEN
A KINGDOM OF OVERCROWDING, AND IT LOOKS LIKE I’M THE QUEEN
THIS PLACE IS DROWNING WITH THE ANCIENT BOOKS INSIDE
COULDN’T KEEP THEM ALL, HEAVEN KNOWS I’VE TRIED
LET THEM GO, LET THEM GO, DON’T KEEP THEM...
Genius!
The Woodberry Poetry Room at Harvard University is using new technology to bring back old sound recordings of poets from the 20th century.
Thanks to a generous donation from Google, Knight News Challenge, Open Society Foundations,and Robin Hood Foundations,10,000 New York City families will soon be able to borrow wi-fi hotspots from NYPL, Brooklyn Library, and Queens Library for free Internet access in their homes! Learn more about this groundbreaking initiative.
Such a great program.
ALA Prez @librarycourtney presenting an ALA Membership Certificate to Christian Kane of the @LibrariansTNT #TeamALA #TheLibrarians
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Magically fixing a printer...
It’s a public domain celebration! The Digital Public Library of America and DigitalNZ are very excited to announce the launch of GIF IT UP, an international competition over the next six weeks to find the best GIFs reusing public domain and openly licensed digital video, images, text, and other material available via our search portals. The winners will have their work featured and celebrated online at the Public Domain Review and Smithsonian.com. Pretty sweet, huh?
To find out more about GIF IT UP, including how you can participate, visit http://dp.la/info/gif-it-up/. Happy GIFing!
Meet Edinburgh Central Library’s pet Dalek.
So what is a Dalek (in fancy dress) doing in the lending library?
It all started a few years back. We got the Dalek (and his less celebrated cyberman sidekick) to promote the Edinburgh Science Festival. We liked the Dalek so much we decided to keep him, and started dressing him up in literary-themed costumes. Like the Doctor, the Dalek has gone through one or two ‘regenerations’ – because like the rest of us he can get a bit deflated from time to time.
We asked readers to share their favorite assigned reading. We tabulated the data and have your top 25 favorite books that you’ve been assigned to read.
Then we took it one step further and looked at where those favorite assigned titles overlapped with favorite books, most hated books, and the books you were most likely to pretend to have read.
Delicious, delicious data.
Interesting Data!
When Robots Join the Library
Connecticut’s Westport Library recently acquired two robots, Vincent and Nancy, that will be used to help teach coding and computer-programming skills. Photo…
Very cool!
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Banned Books Week video featuring one of our former TRA's Maggie! This video is amazing so enjoy!
Minnesota: Land of 10,000 lakes and 1 floating library
There are lakes everywhere in Minnesota and now one of them has a floating library.
Thanks to Sarah Peters the contraption above is open for business on Cedar Lake in Minneapolis. Designed by Molly Reichert the 8 foot structure will hold upwards of 80 books for water travelers to peruse and check out.
Canoes, kayaks, paddle boards, skiffs, rowboats, or even inner tubes are invited to paddle up to the Library and browse the shelves from inside their watercraft. The library has both circulating and reference collections of artists’ books contributed by artists nationwide. A staff of friendly floating librarians facilitate the check out process and make reading suggestions
There are even drop off boxes on the shore to return the books.
About the project, Peters told the Minneapolis Star Tribune “Art books are not a widely known art form..And so there’s an element of delight and surprise. First of all, canoeing along and coming across a library. And then having it stocked with books that are totally unique. It’s like this double whammy of inventiveness. It can expand people’s ideas of what art is.”
True enough but it could also ruin a lot of those unique books. Granted one cannot enter the library but the confluence of books and water rarely ends well.
Perhaps a shore-based library by the landing dock could have achieved the goal of exposing people to the pleasures of book arts and artists books without the high risk. But then again maybe the reward is in the risk.
Story at the Star Tribune: The land of 10,000 lakes now has a floating library
Floating Library website
Flickr set of the Floating Library, 2013
h/t Shelf Awareness
