Library Tourism - Austin Kleon
town. I like asking my artist friends to take me to their favorite art museums and asking my writer friends to take me to their favorite bookstore.
Austin Kleon • Show Your Work!: 10 Ways to Share Your Creativity and Get Discovered (Austin Kleon)
People often ask me for recommendations when they come here. If you’re downtown, I will say: use the hike and bike trail as much as possible, get tacos at Veracruz, and venture at least as far as Terry Black’s for BBQ. Walk the hike and bike a mile west from the convention center and you’ll arrive at our civic cathedral, The Austin Public Library.
... See morePublic libraries are often seen as “opportunity institutions,” opening doors to, and for, the disenfranchised.
Shannon Mattern • Library as Infrastructure
Well-run libraries are filled with people because what a good library offers cannot be easily found elsewhere: an indoor public space in which you do not have to buy anything in order to stay.
Paul Schmitt • Zadie Smith - Feel Free.pdf
