This San Francisco Library Collects Print Materials You Were Never Meant to See | KQED
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This San Francisco Library Collects Print Materials You Were Never Meant to See | KQED
A public library today has information to improve people’s lives. We are an enabler; we are a connector.
Shannon Mattern • Library as Infrastructure
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“librarians are what the internet is aching for—people on task to care about the past, with respect to the past and also to what it shall bequeath to the future.” Can we reimagine libraries for the digital age?
newpublic.org • The word for web is forest
What the catalogers provide is different than traditional press coverage or financial investment. They are dealers of agency. Through a combination of tools, information, and imagination they help draw a map around new communities.
If you ask them to describe what they do, you’ll get a meandering answer. As Brand says: “I find things and found thin... See more
If you ask them to describe what they do, you’ll get a meandering answer. As Brand says: “I find things and found thin... See more
David Lang • The Catalogers
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Cataloging and organizing the world is a deeply human endeavor. Before we can unify ideas together, or provide some sort of large conceptual framework, we need to at least have gathered and organized the facts and data. Creating a catalog or a list involves frameworks and organization, but it is also at peace with the grab-bag and the miscellaneous. It is a means for creating order while still being wary of too much order—or at least comfortable sitting with a bit of a mess.
Too Many Places Are STERILE and TORCHED — Let’s Make Them COOL and FUNKY
Jonah & Erinblackbirdspyplane.comSam Liebeskind and added
We are a collector, a museum, and a gallery. We create educational content. We’re also an auction house and an exchange rolled into one. I think if you had to recreate something for our generation, you have to rethink what that looks like and combine the pieces of what works in the world to create a new thing.
High Snobiety • Investing in Culture: An Interview With Michael Karnjanaprakorn, Founder of Otis
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When I’m traveling, I like to bring back one thing where I say, This could only exist here . As unattainable as it may seem, I want to have things in my life where I say, ‘I can’t link to this. I came upon it by chance, it’s imperfect, it has a soul, and probably no one else has it.’”
Blackbird Spyplane: The unlinked thing with a soul. It can feel
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The Internet holds incredible treasure. T he cultural legacy of mankind hidden in digital archives waiting to be discovered waiting to be used. These images have something in common — there's something that connects them, something you should know about — they are hard of a gigantic collection of free media the media in the so-called public.
Tim Rodenbröker • MODERN ARCHAEOLOGY - Discoveries in the Public Domain
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libraries will have to find ways to enhance the users’ experiences within the analog and digital arenas.