Makerspaces: Aotearoa New Zealand: Friday Linkubator Roundup

Friday 24 April 2015

Tim Youd performing William Faulkner’s “The Sound and the Fury”, at Faulkner’s home in Oxford, Mississippi, June 2014

Another week, another amazing roundup of links. Enjoy, and have a great weekend!

New features:

The new installment of our series on The Labs @CLP pushes a digital makerspace to be real with social issues and the lives of its teens.
We loved our visit to the Corning Museum of Glass, and we’re happy to share how they’re embracing the library-museum connection with artists. All our favorite things!
Mel Kolstad, one of our first featured artists, walked us through her altered books project called “Homage to Libraries”. Try it out!
Tim Youd is a performance artist who has taken on the task of retyping 100 novels on the same typewriter model and in the same general location from whence they came. Wild!

Other news:

We’re huge fans of the Glasgow School of Art Library, and we mourned when it was devastated by a fire. Kate Kosturski wrote an update for INALJ, which we wanted to share with our readers.

Fun stuff:

Buzzfeed nails it with this list of 14 Things Everyone Gets Wrong About Librarians.
OMG, is that Yoda in a 14th century manuscript?? Amazing.
Library of Congress launched a new online collection of recorded poetry and literature readings! (This was in last week’s Linkubator, but people are still very excited!)
A new tool for instant data visualization? Oooo…
Rescued artifacts from the 300-year old Mosul Museum, ransacked by ISIS, will be recreated with 3D printing. Take that, terrorists!
In love with these paintings by an artist with synesthesia who paints what she hears in music.