New features:
- Explore some of the colorful and exciting pop-up material from the Hatchery of the Glasgow School of Art Library.
- The Corning Museum of Glass invited teens to come in for a Wikipedia edit-a-thon to improve the presence of glass artists on the reference site. How cool is that?!
- How does a performance poetry group in the U.K. stage a Library Takeover? Read here to find out!
Other news:
- Revisit this great interview with artist Alice Walsh and her Ex Libris exhibit.
- Did you take part in High Five a Librarian Day? If not, get ready for November 18th, 2016!
- Ever wanted to know the history of nursery rhymes? Watch this YouTube channel!
- Loving this photography series by Kerry Mansfield, titled Expired, featuring damaged library books.
- Not at all related to libraries – watch this crow solve a complicated problem with just a stick.
- Toronto has a Story Pod – an unfolding structure for stories – and it is THE BEST THING.
- Twitch is going to stream Bob Ross videos every Monday. Be sure to tune in.
The Surprising Innovations of Your Local Librarians. Always love these pieces.
- So cool – 7 Hidden Art Secrets That Were Uncovered With Technology.
- What do you think about this Slate article on The Library’s Global Future?
- OooOOo – the Royal College of Music is building a database of historic musical instruments. Can’t wait to see that!
- Cartography nerds! The Library of Congress just launched a new blog for maps!
- The Rijksmuseum bans cameras and asks patrons to sketch art instead. All hail the Rijksmuseum!
- Speaking of venerable institutions, the British Library is working on digitizing Anglo-Saxon manuscripts.
- And now for something completely different – Someone Created a Database That Tracks Pigeon Activity in Movies.
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