New features:
- What’s new from The Hatchery? Using the library as a backdrop for tableaux vivants, that’s what!
- Tieshka K. Smith, artist-in-residence at Oak Park Public Library, shares some of her photographic series, Oak Park After Dark. Any other artist-residencies out there we haven’t heard of?
Other news:
- This week, we revisited a teen writing program out of Lewis & Clark Library in Helena, Montana and the crazy-popular alt+library programs for 20s & 30s at Sacramento Public Library. Check ’em out!
- We’ve got lots of Wisconsin pride here on the Incubator team, and we want to give a boost to WisCode Literati – they’re looking for people to submit coding program kits to their website. Consider contributing if you have!
- From last week: How to buy quality tools for cheap on Craigslist. Maker librarians, take note!
- Amanda Palmer is one tough cookie – she stood outside NYPL painted like Damien Hirst’s statue Verity, eight months pregnant, for the children’s book drive.
- Everyone’s talking about Banksy’s newest artist endeavor: Dismaland, a grim and dismal post-apocalyptic theme park.
- This is your brain on Jane Austen – the science of actively studying a text.
- Mental Floss asks the question you’ve all been wondering: whatever happened to all those Bob Ross paintings?
- A collection of 19th-century advertisements for magic shows? Yes please!
- What a find: a 1917 edition of The Art & Practice of Typography available online.
- Librarians on Bikes are Delivering Books and Wi-Fi to Kids in “Book Deserts”. Um… LOVE.
- Helpful hints in this teacher’s blog post on using picture books for junior high and high school students.
- Fantastic interview with Jason Reynolds from School Library Journal’s SummerTeen 2015!
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