Bringing you the most interesting news from home and abroad on the internet! We recommend enjoying this week’s Linkubator with a cool drink on hand, possibly between your weekend reading sessions. Or, you know, as a break from your work. Have a good one!
“Elementia” issue 12.
New features:
- Check out the good work being done by the IDEA Lab intern team at San Diego Public Library! A standing ovation for all makerspace intern programs.
- In that vein, how on earth do you train library staff on the makerspace tech possibilities? The Labs @ CLP address the important question of professional development in making.
- Blown away by Johnson County Library’s elementia literary magazine of teen writers. And it’s not just for Kansas teens, either!
Other news:
- Calling all artist residency libraries!!! We’re looking to compile a comprehensive list of libraries that host artists of all kinds in formal residency programs. If that’s you, read here for more info.
- We’re only a week away from ALA Annual in San Francisco! Erinn is acting as our ambassador, so say hi if you see her!
- From the archives: We celebrate any kind of artwork inspired by literature, and in 2012, we featured this beautiful map of the streets and landmarks in James Joyce’s Ulysses.
- Grieved to hear about the tragic shooting in Charleston, SC, especially as we mourn for one of our own. Cynthia Hurd will be remembered.
- Star Wars nerds rejoice: a librarian at the University of New Brunswick discovered a 4th draft of the script for A New Hope that maybe settles the “who shot first” debate.
- Could Storytelling Be the Secret Sauce to STEM Education? We say a resounding YES!
- 15 marvelous pieces of advice from book queen, Judy Blume.
- Kick-butt piece from The Guardian about librarians as the protectors of security. *fist pump*
- A New Yorker cover story on the author’s daughter playing Minecraft. Quite lovely.
- Mostly of personal interest, but did you know that it looks like NPR will break even this year because of podcasts? New media success!
- The University of Cambridge is hiring a LEGO professor. We’ve made it, nerds.
- Very interesting: Curation as an Emerging Skillset. What do you think?
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