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    <dc:creator>robertogreco</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["Gina Cargas reached out to the community about collecting records for her middle school students. The response was overwhelming."

...

"“ISO: vinyl records!” 

So began a Facebook post from a middle school librarian in a free stuff group that COYOTE’s Emma Silvers shared in our collective Slack. The post continues, “I’ve recently acquired a record player and am creating a ‘listening station’ in my library… The problem is: I don’t have any records!”

“Maybe a bunch of 12-year-olds getting into obscure vinyl because of their cool-ass school librarian is the feel-good story I need right now,” Emma wrote. 

As an elder Millennial 🧓🏻 who still remembers calling school friends on a landline, waiting for that 56k modem buzz to finish before I could spend a few hours downloading one mp3 file, and sticking a VHS tape into a rewinding machine after the movie ended, something about a vinyl record player making its way into the hands of iPad kids feels very validating. Regardless of whether or not you’re a parent yourself, I think it’s normal to worry about how tech has ruined the attention spans and lives of the young people we interact with. So the thought of middle schoolers in San Francisco getting a chance to mess around with an analog music player in their library is very comforting to me.

That librarian, Gina Cargas, works for SFUSD, and she happened to be a friend of a friend of mine, so I reached out to get more details. Read on to learn more about what she’s doing, why it matters, and how school libraries are getting really fucking cool.

This interview has been lightly edited and condensed.

[image: "a young white woman in a leopard print sweater stands in a school library
Gina Cargas in the library at Aptos Middle School in San Francisco. (Amir Aziz/COYOTE Media Collective)"]

Soleil: What kind of response did you get when you put the word out that you were on the hunt for vinyl? 

Gina: I got a really big response! I had two people at work who suddenly came up to me and were like, are you looking for records? People have been really sweet. In total, I got 40 offers from Facebook. For now — not to sound like a San Francisco-style snob or anything — I’m just responding to people who live close to me for convenience because I live near Glen Park. 

What kind of music are you hoping to collect?

I'm very open to any genres for the kids to explore. I don't have a goal for what music I want to have here, though from my point of view, of course I want them to listen to stuff I like — let's get some Prince! But there's just a range of what they're interested in. Some of them asked me about Metallica this week. Then there are of course the kids whose parents listen to a lot of ‘90s hip-hop.

For now, I want to start with fewer than 50 records. Ideally, even less than that, to be honest; then I can see how it goes. I want to see what the kids gravitate towards. For now, I'll keep a lot of the records in the back while students figure out how to use the record player and slowly introduce more.

What are kids at your school listening to these days?

K-pop! But it’s such a big range: This school has 1,000 students. There are a lot of kids listening to K-pop, rap and hip-hop, all the big pop people; the Wicked soundtrack. And one thing that’s surprising to me: The kids who are into musicals are still into Hamilton! There’s also such a big interest in anime and manga. This age group seems to really like anime soundtracks. But I am so deeply not an expert in that area.

[image: "a vintage record player and vinyl records on a table
Gina Cargas says young students are used to consuming music in a 'decontextualized' way. (Amir Aziz/COYOTE Media Collective)"]

[Note: At this point, I am actively resisting asking about which anime the kids are into.]

Frankly [for] a lot of them, the music they're listening to is what they're hearing on TikTok. It's completely decontextualized from the artist or culture or even the entire song because they get 30 seconds of it, at most. But still, they're interested in it. On a field trip yesterday, I heard students singing at the tops of their lungs; I asked them what song it was and they didn't know because they heard it on social media. They know all the words, though! I’m not saying this to be negative. But there's a whole world of music they could explore and get to know the genre and context.

How did you end up with a record player in your library?

Well, I don't want to claim this is entirely my idea. There's another SFUSD librarian who has a record player. He has a huge range of stuff and he's very much a record collector and I'm not. But anyway, this is my first year at this school, and I took over for a librarian who was here for 15 years. She’s a legend. For some reason, she had the record player — a Newcomb Model ED-10B. But there are no records here, which is why I put out that call on Facebook.

[image: "A close-up of the Newcomb Model ED-10B vintage record player at Aptos Middle School. (Amir Aziz/COYOTE Media Collective)"]

How are you planning to set this up for students?

I'm hoping to set it up with a headphone splitter, and I’m hoping the kids can sit there and try it out and figure out how it works. There will be directions that I’ll put out. There are also some kids that spend as much time as possible in the library, and I think I'll train some of them so they can train other kids to use it. That's how it's gone with other things I have here: The most effective way to teach kids is to have them teach each other.

Some people suggested you could just check out records from the public library. Why not do that?

Quite a few people said that! But giving me records also means you're likely sacrificing them to whatever 12-year-olds are gonna do with them.

Why a record player? What's the appeal for middle schoolers?

The kids are really interested in anything old-school. We have a rotary phone in here and it's an object of deep fascination. They don't know how you dial it. They're very interested in analog technology.

[image: "a close-up of a very old tan record player on a table with vinyl records
The Newcomb Model ED-10B vintage record player sits in the school library. (Amir Aziz/COYOTE Media Collective)"]

How does it fit into what libraries are trying to do these days? 

Libraries have shifted a lot in the last 10 years in terms of their purpose. They're very much a spot for reading and literacy but also a place for curiosity. You see that reflected in a lot of the maker space type programs that are really common in public schools, often through the librarians.

You want kids to explore things they're curious about, whether that's through books or anything else. I have a bunch of SF maps on the wall that are also objects of deep fascination. There's a lot of evolution in how kids can be curious and what sorts of activities we can provide. Sometimes that's more traditional reading and research skills but also creating places for play and joy and connecting with others.

Many libraries are lively these days. It's not a silent space. Which I think is, in many ways, for the best."]]></description>
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Most of my research up to this point has focused on “mediated spaces” at the urban and architectural scales – e.g., urban communications infrastructures, cities as communicative spaces, libraries, archives, etc. And while some of that work – including my book on library design (where I addressed the approaches to labor embodied in service-desk and bookshelf design); my article on the Philips Exeter Library (where I focused on the pedagogical values embedded in library furniture and the “Harkness Table”); an article on the collection of, and interior design for, Alvar Aalto’s Woodberry Poetry Room; and an essay on the history of filing apparatae – has examined interior and furniture design within their architectural contexts, this is the first project that maintains its focus at the “furnishing scale.” I’d be remiss if I didn’t acknowledge my intellectual debts to Lynn Spigel and Beatriz Colomina, whose work proved epiphanous for me in grad school, and who have informed my work to this day."

[via:
https://blog.ayjay.org/intellectual-furnishings/ ]]]></description>
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How to read a Library the topics of digitization, access, visualization, discovery, the democratization of digital technologies, digital/data literacy, and community participation in the context of cultural archives and libraries. The practice-based research departs from the research questions: Can we use the physical library and its collection to imagine access to knowledge in the digital library? Can we use digital tools to allow readers to link data, share knowledge and collaborate within and across libraries? Can machine learning and AI be used in a library to enhance reading and promote access instead of being used for targeting advertisement and surveillance? Is it possible to make the library a digital public space? The research was concluded with the exhibition Catching up in the Archive in which the entire archive of de Appel was displayed. We produce a Mobile Archive Unit as a method to involve the community in the digitization process."]]></description>
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https://robinrendle.com/newsletter/the-book-club-of-california/ ]

"The Book Club of California is a non-profit organization founded in 1912 with a vibrant tradition of preserving and promoting California culture and the history of the book. Our community is comprised of passionate book collectors, publishers, printers, designers, authors, historians, librarians, book artists, students, and bibliophiles of all stripes.

The Book Club engages and educates more than 4,000 individuals each year through its efforts in San Francisco and Southern California. We bring the book to life through a series of thought-provoking lectures, dynamic programs & exhibitions, finely printed books, and an expansive special collections library."]]></description>
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    <title>Our History Has Always Been Contraband: In Defense of Black Studies - YouTube</title>
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    <dc:creator>robertogreco</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["Join Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor and Robin D.G. Kelley for a conversation about perspectives for fighting back against racism today.

Since its founding as a discipline, Black Studies has been under relentless attack by social and political forces seeking to discredit and neutralize it. Most recently, legislatures across the country have moved to ban Black Studies from curricula, while the right mobilizes outrage against librarians and educators. These attacks come in the context of a backlash against the popular 2020 uprising against racism and police violence, and are being amplified in the halls of power from Congress to the Supreme Court.

Join Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor and Robin D.G. Kelley, co-editors with Colin Kaepernick of the new book Our History Has Always Been Contraband: In Defense of Black Studies, for a wide-ranging conversation about perspectives for fighting back against racism today, from the classroom to the streets.

Speakers:

Robin D. G. Kelley is Professor and Gary B. Nash Endowed Chair in U.S. History at UCLA. He is the author of Hammer and Hoe, Race Rebels, Freedom Dreams: The Black Radical Imagination, and Thelonious Monk: The Life and Times of an American Original, among other titles. His writing has been featured in the Journal of American History, American Historical Review, Black Music Research Journal, African Studies Review, New York Times, The Crisis, The Nation, and Voice Literary Supplement.

Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor writes and speaks on Black politics, social movements, and racial inequality in the United States. She is the author of Race for Profit: How Banks and the Real Estate Industry Undermined Black Homeownership, published in 2019 by University of North Carolina Press. Race for Profit was a semi-finalist for the 2019 National Book Award and a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in History in 2020. She is a 2021 MacArthur Foundation Fellow. Her earlier book From #BlackLivesMatter to Black Liberation won the Lannan Cultural Freedom Award for an Especially Notable Book in 2016. She is also editor of How We Get Free: Black Feminism and the Combahee River Collective, which won the Lambda Literary Award for LGBQT nonfiction in 2018. She is a contributing writer at The New Yorker and Professor of African American Studies at Princeton University."]]></description>
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    <dc:creator>robertogreco</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["Get thee a library card!

Hey y’all,

Last week I was on a bike ride and one of my companions told me he didn’t have a library card. I couldn’t believe it! This person is constantly reading and we discuss books all the time. When I voiced my disbelief and listed off all the things I do with my Austin Public Library card, some of the other riders in our crew admitted they had no idea you could do so much at the library.

So today, I’m sending this letter to everybody with a summer reading assignment:

1. Visit your local library and apply for a library card. (Or pay your fines and renew.)

2. Ask a librarian for a tour of the library building, the online catalog, and the digital holdings. Ask the librarian to show you how to put materials on hold, how to request materials for purchase, and how to use interlibrary loan.

3. Check out at least one item. (So you have to return.)

That’s it! That’s all I ask. Bonus points if you bring some kids or friends or loved ones with you.

Now, everybody’s library is different — some libraries might offer more and some might offer less — but here’s a short list of things I’ve done with my library card recently, just as a sampling of possibilities:

- I put paper books and DVDS and Blu-rays and CDs on hold and had them delivered to my local branch for pickup

- I downloaded brand-new ebooks straight to my Kindle

- I listened to audiobooks with the Libby and Hoopla apps on my phone

- I streamed movies with Kanopy on my Roku TV

- I read brand-new issues of newspapers and magazines like New Scientist online

- I got my kids’ passports renewed through the APL’s passport service

All of this for free!

I took all these photos at public libraries
If you’re traveling and away from your local library this summer, no problem: Try some library tourism! Even if you don’t plan a whole trip around them, libraries are excellent spots for weary travelers: free, quiet, cool, full of locals, and staffed by people whose job is to help any visitors who walk in the door.

Wherever I travel, I research the nearby libraries and try to pop into any I happen to come across while walking around. In Milan, I stumbled onto the Braidense National Library and saw an excellent exhibit of book art. Driving the California coast, I discovered that the public library in Encinitas has a view of the Pacific. During a week on Cape Cod, we visited the brand-new Eastham Public Library during a week on Cape Cod. (You might be surprised where you’ll find an amazing library: The Cleveland Public Library, for example, is one of the most beautiful libraries I’ve been in.)

So if you’re out traveling this summer, stop in a public library! If you need anything, the librarians will help you. I’ve also heard of libraries offering cards to temporary visitors.

Now y’all tell me: How do you use the library? What do you wish people knew about libraries? What did I miss? Let us know in the comments:"]]></description>
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    <title>The Ezra Klein Show: Best Of: Ruth Ozeki’s Enchanted Relationship to Minds and Possessions on Apple Podcasts</title>
    <dc:date>2022-12-05T03:10:14+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/best-of-ruth-ozekis-enchanted-relationship-to-minds/id1548604447?i=1000571550798</link>
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https://www.nytimes.com/2022/01/25/opinion/ezra-klein-podcast-ruth-ozeki.html

transcript:
https://www.nytimes.com/2022/01/25/podcasts/transcript-ezra-klein-interviews-ruth-ozeki.html ]

"Today we're taking a short break and re-releasing one of our favorite episodes from 2022, a conversation with the novelist and Buddhist priest Ruth Ozeki. We'll be back with new episodes next week!

The world has gotten louder, even when we’re alone. A day spent in isolation can still mean a day buffeted by the voices on social media and the news, on podcasts, in emails and text messages. Objects have also gotten louder: through the advertisements that follow us around the web, the endless scroll of merchandise available on internet shopping sites and in the plentiful aisles of superstores. What happens when you really start listening to all these voices? What happens when you can’t stop hearing them?

Ruth Ozeki is a Zen Buddhist priest and the author of novels including “A Tale for the Time Being,” which was shortlisted for the Booker Prize, and “The Book of Form and Emptiness,” which I read over paternity leave and loved. “The Book of Form and Emptiness” is about Benny, a teenager who starts hearing objects speak to him right after his father’s death, and it’s about his mother, Annabelle, who can’t let go of anything she owns, and can’t seem to help her son or herself. And then it’s about so much more than that: mental illnesses and materialism and consumerism and creative inspiration and information overload and the power of stories and the role of libraries and unshared mental experiences and on and on. It’s a book thick with ideas but written with a deceptively light, gentle pen.

Our conversation begins by exploring what it means to hear voices in our minds, and whether it’s really so rare. We talk about how Ozeki’s novels begin she hears a character speaking in her mind, how meditation can teach you to detach from own internal monologue, why Marie Kondo’s almost animist philosophy of tidying became so popular across the globe, whether objects want things, whether practicing Zen has helped her want less and, my personal favorite part, the dilemmas posed by an empty box with the words “empty box” written on it.

Mentioned:
The Great Shift by James L. Kugel

Book recommendations:
When You Greet Me I Bow by Norman Fischer
The Aleph and Other Stories by Jorge Luis Borges
Vibrant Matter by Jane Bennett

This episode contains a brief mention of suicidal ideation. If you are having thoughts of suicide, call the National Suicide Prevention Lifeline at 1-800-273-8255 (TALK). A list of additional resources is available at SpeakingOfSuicide.com/resources."

[See also:
https://www.listennotes.com/podcasts/the-ezra-klein-show/best-of-ruth-ozekis-cEL9YtiVWnB/ ]]></description>
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    <title>Two Things that Would Fix Twitter - YouTube</title>
    <dc:date>2022-11-29T01:00:57+00:00</dc:date>
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    <dc:creator>robertogreco</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["In this clip, Hasan Minhaj mentions two things that he would add to the "Dear Twitter" video Marques made a few weeks ago. Then Marques talks about how he curates a positive Twitter experience by selectively responding to certain kinds of comments."

[See also:

"The Responsibility of Interviewing Powerful People"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VghKXxtsyIk

"In this clip, Hasan Minhaj asks Marques what it's like to sit down with some of the most powerful people on the planet. They talk about Elon Musk, the late Kobe Bryant, and tech CEOs in general. "

and/or the full interview

"Are We Optimistic About Tech with Hasan Minhaj" [tags here also for this longer version]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Zch9Uaxtrw

"This week, Marques and Andrew sit down with Hasan Minhaj! They discuss everything from fantasy basketball to whether or not artificial intelligence can create art. There are a lot of upsides to new technologies, but there are also some serious negative aspects of technology that are worth discussing (hence this 2-hour long conversation). Despite all the downsides, Marques sheds some light on how he thinks about technology and continues to stay optimistic about the future. This is a good one!

Chapters:
00:00 Intro
02:00 Hasan Minhaj intro and fantasy basketball
07:55 Art and Basketball
20:33 Ad break
20:35 Hasan asks questions from his sticky notes
21:30 Staying honest as the YouTube algorithm has grown
30:00 Hasan's problem with tech
38:49 Is social media good for the entertainment industry?
49:31 Ad break
49:37 Screen addictions and anxiety
01:02:55 Conversations about AI and DALL-E 2
01:14:50 How to fix Twitter and incentivizing positive behavior online 
01:43:45 Elon Musk coverage and interviewing important people
01:55:34 A Race to Z with Hasan Minhaj
01:49:45 Outro"]]]></description>
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    <dc:creator>robertogreco</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["Libraries aren't just for books. They're often spaces that transform into what you need them to be: a classroom, a cyber café, a place to find answers, a quiet spot to be alone. It's actually kind of magical. This week, we have stories of people who roam the stacks and find unexpected things that just happen to be exactly what they required."

…

"Prologue
One Monday earlier this month, we sent five producers to record what happened at library reference desks around the country. (5 1/2 minutes)

Act One
In Praise of Limbo
By Zoe Chace
There is a library that's on the border of Canada and the United States — literally on the border, with part of the library in each country. Producer Zoe Chace interviews journalist Yeganeh Torbati about how lately, it's become a critical space for a surprising set of visitors. (7 minutes)

Act Two
Book Fishing In America
By Sean Cole
In Richard Brautigan's novel "The Abortion," he imagines a library where regular people can come and drop off their own unpublished books. Nothing is turned away. The books live there forever. It’s the kind of place that would never work in real life. But someone decided to try it. Producer Sean Cole has the story. (28 minutes)

You can explore the manuscripts of the Brautigan Library online. 
[http://brautiganlibrary.com/index.html ]

Act Three
Growing Shelf-Awareness
By Stephanie Foo
Lydia Sigwarth spent a lot of time in her public library growing up – all day, almost every day, for six months straight. Producer Stephanie Foo returned to that library with her, after years away. (13 1/2 minutes)"]]></description>
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    <dc:creator>robertogreco</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[[2:00] "For some reason — I don't know who did this because there's no women's and gender studies program in that university to this day — some renegade librarian or professor had put all these feminist journals on a bookshelf that I discovered. And they had all these feminists from my heritage, from the Middle East, from Muslim backgrounds, and also other feminists from different backgrounds. And I remember when I first discovered the word 'feminism' and discovered their writing. [It] terrified me. It terrified me. I would just put these books down and these journals down and just walk away because I was really scared because I understood that the more I got into that, the more it would just unravel everything. And I use that experience now to tell people, "when something really scares you, it's an indication that it's something you really need because it's going to really  unsettle all of the things that you need to shake up in you life." Feminism saved my life and feminism saved my mind. And thanks to Saudi Arabia, ironically enough, I became the woman I am today."]]></description>
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    <dc:creator>robertogreco</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[[parts of the video (from the introduction): "1. Libraries existed to copy data. Libraries as warehouses was a recent idea and not a very good one 2. The online world used to be considered rhizomatic but recent events have proven that it is actually quite arboretic and precarious. 3. A method of sharing files using hard drives is slow, but it is extremely resilient. This reversalism is a radical tactic agains draconian proprietarianism. 4. There are forces and trends that are working against portable libraries."]

[Book is here:
http://networkcultures.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/NN07_complete.pdf
http://networkcultures.org/blog/publication/no-07-radical-tactics-of-the-offline-library-henry-warwick/ ]

"The Radical Tactics of the Offline Library is based on the book "Radical Tactics: Reversalism and Personal Portable Libraries"
By Henry Warwick

The Personal Portable Library in its most simple form is a hard drive or USB stick containing a large collection of e-books, curated and archived by an individual user. The flourishing of the offline digital library is a response to the fact that truly private sharing of knowledge in the online realm is increasingly made impossible. While P2P sharing sites and online libraries with downloadable e-books are precarious, people are naturally led to an atavistic and reversalist workaround. The radical tactics of the offline: abandoning the online for more secure offline transfer. Taking inspiration from ancient libraries as copying centers and Sneakernet, Henry Warwick describes the future of the library as digital and offline. Radical Tactics: Reversalism and Personal Portable Libraries traces the history of the library and the importance of the Personal Portable Library in sharing knowledge and resisting proprietarian forces.

The library in Alexandria contained about 500,000 scrolls; the Library of Congress, the largest library in the history of civilization, contains about 35 million books. A digital version of it would fit on a 24 TB drive, which can be purchased for about $2000. Obviously, most people don’t need 35 million books. A small local library of 10,000 books could fit on a 64 GB thumb drive the size of a pack of chewing gum and costing perhaps $40. An astounding fact with immense implications. It is trivially simple to start collecting e-books, marshalling them into libraries on hard drives, and then to share the results. And it is much less trivially important. Sharing is caring. Societies where people share, especially ideas, are societies that will naturally flourish."]]></description>
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    <title>Buddy, the Library Isn't a 7-Eleven | Literary Hub</title>
    <dc:date>2018-08-26T18:28:04+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://lithub.com/buddy-the-library-isnt-a-7-eleven/</link>
    <dc:creator>robertogreco</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["Today someone handed me a Costco card. For what purpose? To check out books, of course! This is the fourth time in my illustrious library career that this has happened.

In honor of this brave soul (who owes me 600 Costco-sized boxes of Kraft macaroni and cheese and a legit flight of boxed wines if they try this again), I present to you a collection of interesting items people have asked for at the circulation desk:

– My full coffee mug, my breakfast, my lunch, my dinner, the gum from my mouth

– Birthday party supplies (for a party they were planning to throw in in the library, SURPRISE!)

– Ibuprofen

– Plastic bags to clean up after a dog (where was the dog, we don’t know)

– The newest season of Game of Thrones that had not yet aired on TV

– A ream of copier paper

– Two reams of copier paper

– Printer ink

– Eight feet of “heavy duty” chain

– Birdseed

– Tampons (this one I get—tampons and sanitary pads should be free, and they should be available in every restroom, don’t @ me)

– Tomorrow’s newspaper

– Lottery tickets

– Cigarettes

– A VHS player

– The book with the blue cover, the book with the red cover, the book with the green cover

– The book that’s about horses . . . but not like about, horses, you know?

– Breath mints (cinnamon preferred)

– Tip for pizza delivery (delivered to the library, didn’t even offer me a goddamn slice)

– A microscope

– JOANN Fabric coupons

– A book of clean jokes (for a bachelor party)

– A scooter repair kit

– A fishing license

– Any items from Lost & Found “worth over 100 dollars”

– Eyeglasses

– My eyeglasses

– Sunglasses

– My sunglasses

– Canned corn

– Sunscreen, a beach towel, a swimsuit

– A terrarium

– The hair tie on my wrist

– “I like that necklace you’re wearing can I borrow it”

– Breakfast cereal, “but not that sugary crap”

– A spare tire

– A lawnmower

– Pasta sauce

– Glow sticks “for a rave”

– Keys to the library to come in after hours and “do some stuff”

– Wart remover

– A dictionary, but only one that doesn’t include swears

– A sharpie, to “mark out the swears in the books”

– Chapstick

– Alvin and the Chipmunks puppets

– An exorcism kit (“What do you mean what’s an exorcism kit??”)

– A cello

– 20 to 30 inflatable balloons (red preferred)

– Tax forms

– TAX FORMS

– T A X F O R M S

– “Do you guys have any eclipse glasses”

– “Do you guys have mayo—not Miracle Whip?”

– Markers, but only the ones scented like fruit

– A fake mustache

– A frisbee

– Any plants the library “isn’t currently using”

– Sidewalk chalk (“How can you guys not have sidewalk chalk? This is the worst library!”)

– Electromagnetic detectors for ghost hunting

– Sunflower seeds

The best part about this list is I’ll just get to keep adding to it, forever and ever, amen.

My fellow librarians and library staff: what’s the weirdest thing you’ve ever been asked for at the circulation desk? I’ll feature the best answers in my next column!

Okay, gotta go, someone wants to borrow my car."]]></description>
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    <title>Are.na / Blog – Towards A Library Without Walls</title>
    <dc:date>2018-06-09T18:37:38+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://www.are.na/blog/case%20study/2017/10/10/karly-wildenhaus.html</link>
    <dc:creator>robertogreco</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["Collaboration has also become key to the way we conceive associative indexing on today’s version of the Internet, which could not have been anticipated by Bush at today’s scale. In “As We May Think,” Bush does acknowledge the possibility of sharing links generated by the Memex in the example of a researcher reproducing a trail on the Turkish bow for inclusion in a colleague’s “more general” trail.6 However, the scale of a hypertextual tool such as Are.na, which has over 20,000 users, far exceeds the one-to-one exchange Bush envisioned for his Memex, with significant implications for associative indexing. This phenomenon has its own neologism, “crowdsourcing,” wherein large numbers of users, most typically through the Internet, contribute to an information platform, as seen widely from commercial endeavors such as Google-owned Waze to non-profit projects such as Wikipedia. The relative advantages and disadvantages of crowdsourcing for knowledge production are the subject of much literature but could be briefly alluded to here in terms of diversity of material, collective intelligence, increased scale, and lack of consolidated control. But at its most promising, crowdsourcing creates the potential for rich communities that can form around information sharing, as is well articulated by Paul Duguid and John Seely Brown writing on the social life of information:

<blockquote>“[D]ocuments do not merely carry information, they help make it, structure it, and validate it. More intriguing, perhaps, documents also help structure society, enabling social groups to form, develop, and maintain a sense of shared identity. Viewing documents as mere information carriers overlooks this social role.”7</blockquote>"

…

"Considering the ways in which Are.na operates within a community of artists and culturally-engaged individuals, contrasting Are.na with Bush’s Memex highlights the importance of conceiving how knowledge forms, knowledge tools, and knowledge communities all interplay with one another. By acknowledging other forms of knowledge beyond the scientific and better understanding the role sociality plays in our contemporary experience of information, we can better define what constitutes information and how best to describe, classify, organize, and make it accessible as librarians. Rather than prioritizing static information, fixed organization, and solitary experiences as the conventional library environment is known to do, those of us who work in LIS can adopt the more boundless strategies that we encounter in hypertextual tools such as Are.na for the benefit of the communities that we serve, essentially working towards becoming a library without the brick walls that Lampland and Star refer to in regards to infrastructure that fails to serve user needs. Parallel to thinking about what Are.na might mean for librarianship, we can look to extant projects such as the Prelinger Library and the Sitterwerk’s Kunstbibliothek, whose methods for organizing their material also exist as an alternative to more traditionally-organized libraries.

So to expand on Sam’s question and its inverse: What could a reference interview that uses Are.na look like? What would happen if books in an OPAC were nodes that could be linked by users? And what if the discovery tools we design actually encouraged research that is social, elusive, and nonlinear?"]]></description>
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    <title>How Libraries Won Over The Hearts Of Millennials | GOOD Education</title>
    <dc:date>2017-06-28T21:50:01+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://education.good.is/articles/this-is-generation-uses-libraries-most</link>
    <dc:creator>robertogreco</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[[See also: "Millennials are the most likely generation of Americans to use public libraries"
http://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2017/06/21/millennials-are-the-most-likely-generation-of-americans-to-use-public-libraries/ ]

"It’s true that more millennials have a college degree than any other generation of young adults, but respondents to Pew’s survey weren’t talking about going to a library to cram for finals. In its survey, Pew made sure to use “wording specifically focused on use of public libraries, not on-campus academic libraries.”

In a previous report on library usage, Pew wrote that “notable shares of Americans do not know that libraries offer learning-related programs and material.” Libraries have made a significant transition over the last two decades from being mere repositories of books to being resource-stacked centers of community engagement and learning — and that seems to have attracted younger folks.

Research released by Pew in 2014 revealed that millennials actually outread every other generation. However in its most recent report, Pew suggests that one of the main drivers of millennial public library usage is that they are coming in to access free computers and internet connections. That’s backed up by what librarians themselves are seeing. Millennials “are familiar with the fact that the library offers them the bandwidth and wireless access they might not get anywhere else," Julie Todaro, president of the American Library Association, told CNN.

It also doesn’t hurt that the ALA trains librarians on how to reach the public on social media. A two-day ALA workshop in Chicago in August will teach librarians how to market library services to Snapchat users. (And you thought librarians only learned the Dewey Decimal System.)

Although the internet might be luring millenials into libraries, they’re likely sticking around because of the depth and breadth of educational resources and cultural programs. A visitor to one of the 73 branches of the Los Angeles Public Library can check out a photography book (good luck reading that on your smartphone or tablet), take a free class that prepares them for the civics test required to become a U.S. citizen, or attend a talk given by “RuPaul’s Drag Race” host RuPaul Charles.

Overall, 46% of all adults ages 18 and older have used the resources offered by their public library or bookmobile during the previous year, reported Pew. “When we say that the library is for everyone … we really mean that there is something that everyone can find at the library to fulfill the desire of reading, entertainment, internet access, self-help, technology assistance or social desire,” Kimberly Bowen, the director of the Denison Public Library in suburban Dallas, told the Herald Democrat. “I think it’s simply that we are asking the community what they want from their library, and we are listening.”

Of course, all this doesn’t mean that millennials don’t take selfies in public libraries. But now the folks snapping and posting those pics on Instagram might just be the librarians themselves."]]></description>
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    <title>All I Know Is What’s on the Internet — Real Life</title>
    <dc:date>2017-01-19T05:44:07+00:00</dc:date>
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    <dc:creator>robertogreco</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["For information literacy to have any relevance, schools and libraries must assume that primary sources and government agencies act in good faith. But the social media prowess of a Donald Trump scuttles CRAAP logic. Not only does Trump disregard information literacy protocols in his own information diet — he famously declared during the campaign, “All I know is what’s on the internet” — but he operates with an entirely different paradigm for making public statements. He speaks as a celebrity, confident in the value of his brand, rather than as a politician or technocrat, making recourse to facts, tactical compromises, or polls.

There is no reason to think that the Trump administration will be a “valid” source in the sense of making truthful, accurate statements. Instead, Trump has backed into Karl Rove’s famous idea of the reality-based community: “We’re an empire now, and when we act, we create our own reality. And while you’re studying that reality — judiciously, as you will — we’ll act again.”

Trump-based reality is now spreading into other government agencies. In late 2016, the House Committee on Science, Space, and Technology used its .gov homepage to question causes of climate change, while the Wisconsin State Department of Natural Resources recently changed reports to claim the subject is a matter of scientific debate.

Benjamin ends “The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction” by arguing that “fascism attempts to organize the newly created proletarian masses without affecting the property structure which the masses strive to eliminate. Fascism sees its salvation in giving these masses not their right, but instead a chance to express themselves.” This recasts social media in a more sinister light. Fascism is on the rise not because students can’t tell fake news from the slanted news promulgated by hegemonic interests. Rather, fascism is resurgent because freedom of expression has turned out to have little to do with what we can create and much more to do with how much we can consume.

The promise of social justice and upward mobility through education has largely gone unkept, and many citizens who believed in democratic progress have turned to different promises. Information literacy fails not only because it serves a broken system, but because it is affectively beside the point. Its cerebral pleasure pales in comparison with fascism’s more direct, emotive appeals.

Information today is content, a consumable whose truth value is measured in page views. To combat this, the validation of knowledge must be localized, shared in communities between engaged citizens. Information-literacy rubrics implemented by individuals are insufficient. We must value expertise, but experts must also commit to forging community through shared development. The one-way diffusion of knowledge must be upended.

Information literacy is less a solution than an alibi for the problems ailing education. “Solving” fake news will only compound the real problem. Without substantial work to subvert the traditional and promote the outside, the feel-good efforts of information literacy will not serve America’s promised rebound. Instead they will signify democracy’s dead-cat bounce."

[See also this response: https://twitter.com/holden/status/821904132814442496 ]]]></description>
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    <dc:date>2016-11-19T21:01:04+00:00</dc:date>
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    <dc:creator>robertogreco</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["I am writing but I am mostly still listening. Letting my friends and community know I am here for them. And reading poetry.

[screenshot of Wendell Berry’s "The Peace of Wild Things"]

Not to be all "Hey it's going to be fine if we all just reconnect with nature and not let it bother us" but more that self-care is useful and the birds don't give a shit about this election so sometimes it can be good to just sit with them to recenter before you get back to work.

Post-election time in America is time for a lot of reflection, frustration, and planning and scheming for whatever is coming down the road. I've been reading and assessing.

My peripatetic lifestyle has always held some risks and that hasn't changed. My position otherwise is not that risky. Many people are being thrown into incredibly vulnerable positions as a result of this election--positions that were only getting slightly stabilized over the last decade--and this is happening at a national or international level, not just in our local communities. I'm proud of what libraries have been able to accomplish in the world so far. I offer a reading list and hopes that we can weather this storm together and form an effective and ruthlessly efficient resistance.
 

Brief Annotated Bibliography for the Librarian Resistance

• While I am still helping people get their first email addresses, people are blaming algorithms for losing the election for HRC. I am not forwarding this position personally (also not NOT forwarding it) but it's a fascinating look at what can happen when we can't get under the hood of our systems. Noted for later.

• The folks from We Need Diverse Books came out with a post-election statement.

• EFF has provided a very good Surveillance Self-Defense page for those who feel they need to communicate significantly more securely than they have been.

• Helping people with questions about what this all means for them? Lambda Legal has a post-election FAQ for GLBTQ folks. More specifics for other vulnerable populations can be found at Concrete Suggestions in Preparation for January 2017’s Change in American Government a nice repurposable online document (sometimes overloaded with readers, try again if you can't get it).

• Libraries can be a health lifeline for people most at risk, according to a US study (headline is from Reuters, let me know if you'd like me to email you the PDF of the study)

• Rebecca Solnit's book Hope in the Dark is available for free for a few more days.

• Libraries step up (in times of crisis) is a place on Facebook where you can get help with library issues concerning this recent election.

• How to weather the Trump Administration? Head to the library. An OpEd piece in the LA Times.

Librarians may be the only first responders holding the line between America and a raging national pandemic of absolutism. More desperately than ever, we need our libraries now, and all three of their traditional pillars: 1) education, 2) good reading and 3) the convivial refuge of a place apart. In other words, libraries may be the last coal we have left to blow on.

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Urban Libraries Unite is having their annual fund drive and will send you a My Library is for Everyone button if you donate, or you could just make your own button (but donating anyhow is a good idea, I did).

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Maybe you don't know what to do? Letting people know that the library is for everyone, maybe just "surfacing" the policies that you already have like Lawrence Public Library has done, can show people that you know that this is a tough time for many and that you are there for them.

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Or something like this? Other suggestions from Programming Librarian.

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I am bad at talking about my feelings, so I will continue mostly not to. I am better at talking about, and taking, actions. Pointers welcome. Replies to this newsletter always read and replied to. Signing off with a quote from Toni Morrison
 
"I know the world is bruised and bleeding, and though it is important not to ignore its pain, it is also critical to refuse to succumb to its malevolence. Like failure, chaos contains information that can lead to knowledge—even wisdom. Like art."
 
and another poem from Wendell Berry.

[screenshot of Wendell Berry’s "The Real Work"]"]]></description>
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    <dc:creator>robertogreco</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["After I re-read that section, I was reminded of Laurence Weschler writing about David Hockney, and how “interest-ing” for Hockney is a verb: it is the continual projection of interest. (The more you look at something, the more interesting it gets.) This was certainly the case with me after I started reading this book, and Holt in general: I, who felt like a somewhat enlightened parent, started noting all the ways I wasn’t paying attention to them, and over time, they have become more interesting to me, not because I’m doting on them more, or even spending more time with them, but because I am looking at them like little scientists, or just little people, who are worthy of interest. (It sounds so stupid: of course a parent should find their kids interesting, but think about how many parents and teachers and adults you know — maybe including yourself — who, secretly, probably don’t.)

Holt’s work has really shaken me up, blown my mind, and given me a different way of thinking about my kids. Some of my favorite bits, below."]]></description>
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— shoutout to meme librarian Amanda Brennan (@continuants) for mentioning Meme Documentation in an interview on the podcast @fansplaining"

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    <title>Google’s slow fade with librarians — The Message — Medium</title>
    <dc:date>2015-02-04T20:10:01+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://medium.com/message/googles-slow-fade-with-librarians-fddda838a0b7</link>
    <dc:creator>robertogreco</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["Written in response to “Never trust a corporation to do a library’s job” [https://medium.com/message/never-trust-a-corporation-to-do-a-librarys-job-f58db4673351 ]"

…

"Time passed. The newsletter started to be written by someone with the job title Associate Marketing Manager, Librarian Outreach in March of 2007. Librarian Central also got a blog in 2007 which they updated like crazy all through the early part of the year. We Googled “limerence” and brushed up on the five love languages. We’d always been big into acts of service.

Then they said they were taking a break. A break? Just for the summer, they said, then didn’t update for a year. Maybe we should have taken a hint? But we were so sure that we were made for each other.

They made one additional post to the blog in 2008 , its last. It was written by someone whose job was Product Marketing Manager, without a clip art book or library in sight. In early 2009 the Librarian Central URL just started redirecting to the blogspot blog. OK, we can take a hint.

We were having our own doubts, of course. How could you not? The Google Books project seemed to be letting itself go. Things any librarian would notice: bad scans; faulty metadata; narrowing the scope of public domain; having machines do jobs that should be done (or at least overseen) by humans. They seemed to be restricting and worsening access to cultural content, not expanding and improving it. Maybe we were going in different directions?

The last issue of the Google Librarian Newsletter in April 2009 directed people to the Inside Google Books blog. We saw Jodi around there until 2010. That blog hasn’t been updated since August 2012. Its last post, by a Google Play Operations Specialist, directs readers to the general Google Search blog. We know when we are getting the runaround.

Sometime in 2014 between August and October, Google removed the Librarian Central blog entirely, took down all the posts and memory-holed it. Maybe it was because of the comment spam. You can still read the posts from the blog through the Internet Archive. Sure, the Archive is not as flashy, but they get the work done and they’re always there for you.

…

Google came back to the annual ALA Conference in June of 2012 claiming to be a First Time Exhibitor. They looked great, the years had been good to them. They were selling something of course… to libraries or really to anyone. We walked by a few times but they didn’t seem to recognize us.

But we still remember when they were there before. Librarians remember.

Don’t get me wrong, we’re doing pretty great on our own, better than ever really. We’ve gotten a bit more independent, not putting all of our eggs into any one basket, gotten better at establishing boundaries. Still not sure, after all that, how we got this all so wrong. Didn’t we both want the same thing? Maybe it really wasn’t us, it was them. Most days it’s hard to remember what we saw in Google. Why did we think we’d make good partners?"
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    <title>Library as Infrastructure</title>
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    <dc:creator>robertogreco</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["For millennia libraries have acquired resources, organized them, preserved them and made them accessible (or not) to patrons. But the forms of those resources have changed — from scrolls and codices; to LPs and LaserDiscs; to e-books, electronic databases and open data sets. Libraries have had at least to comprehend, if not become a key node within, evolving systems of media production and distribution. Consider the medieval scriptoria where manuscripts were produced; the evolution of the publishing industry and book trade after Gutenberg; the rise of information technology and its webs of wires, protocols and regulations. 1 At every stage, the contexts — spatial, political, economic, cultural — in which libraries function have shifted; so they are continuously reinventing themselves and the means by which they provide those vital information services.

Libraries have also assumed a host of ever-changing social and symbolic functions. They have been expected to symbolize the eminence of a ruler or state, to integrally link “knowledge” and “power” — and, more recently, to serve as “community centers,” “public squares” or “think tanks.” Even those seemingly modern metaphors have deep histories. The ancient Library of Alexandria was a prototypical think tank, 2 and the early Carnegie buildings of the 1880s were community centers with swimming pools and public baths, bowling alleys, billiard rooms, even rifle ranges, as well as book stacks. 3 As the Carnegie funding program expanded internationally — to more than 2,500 libraries worldwide — secretary James Bertram standardized the design in his 1911 pamphlet “Notes on the Erection of Library Buildings,” which offered grantees a choice of six models, believed to be the work of architect Edward Tilton. Notably, they all included a lecture room.

In short, the library has always been a place where informational and social infrastructures intersect within a physical infrastructure that (ideally) supports that program.

Now we are seeing the rise of a new metaphor: the library as “platform” — a buzzy word that refers to a base upon which developers create new applications, technologies and processes. In an influential 2012 article in Library Journal, David Weinberger proposed that we think of libraries as “open platforms” — not only for the creation of software, but also for the development of knowledge and community. 4 Weinberger argued that libraries should open up their entire collections, all their metadata, and any technologies they’ve created, and allow anyone to build new products and services on top of that foundation. The platform model, he wrote, “focuses our attention away from the provisioning of resources to the foment” — the “messy, rich networks of people and ideas” — that “those resources engender.” Thus the ancient Library of Alexandria, part of a larger museum with botanical gardens, laboratories, living quarters and dining halls, was a platform not only for the translation and copying of myriad texts and the compilation of a magnificent collection, but also for the launch of works by Euclid, Archimedes, Eratosthenes and their peers."

…

"Partly because of their skill in reaching populations that others miss, libraries have recently reported record circulation and visitation, despite severe budget cuts, decreased hours and the threatened closure or sale of “underperforming” branches. 9 Meanwhile the Pew Research Center has released a series of studies about the materials and services Americans want their libraries to provide. Among the findings: 90 percent of respondents say the closure of their local public library would have an impact on their community, and 63 percent describe that impact as “major.”"

…

"Again, we need to look to the infrastructural ecology — the larger network of public services and knowledge institutions of which each library is a part. How might towns, cities and regions assess what their various public (and private) institutions are uniquely qualified and sufficiently resourced to do, and then deploy those resources most effectively? Should we regard the library as the territory of the civic mind and ask other social services to attend to the civic body? The assignment of social responsibility isn’t so black and white — nor are the boundaries between mind and body, cognition and affect — but libraries do need to collaborate with other institutions to determine how they leverage the resources of the infrastructural ecology to serve their publics, with each institution and organization contributing what it’s best equipped to contribute — and each operating with a clear sense of its mission and obligation."

…

"Libraries need to stay focused on their long-term cultural goals — which should hold true regardless of what Google decides to do tomorrow — and on their place within the larger infrastructural ecology. They also need to consider how their various infrastructural identities map onto each other, or don’t. Can an institution whose technical and physical infrastructure is governed by the pursuit of innovation also fulfill its obligations as a social infrastructure serving the disenfranchised? What ethics are embodied in the single-minded pursuit of “the latest” technologies, or the equation of learning with entrepreneurialism?

As Zadie Smith argued beautifully in the New York Review of Books, we risk losing the library’s role as a “different kind of social reality (of the three dimensional kind), which by its very existence teaches a system of values beyond the fiscal.” Barbara Fister, a librarian at Gustavus Adolphus College, offered an equally eloquent plea for the library as a space of exception:

<blockquote>Libraries are not, or at least should not be, engines of productivity. If anything, they should slow people down and seduce them with the unexpected, the irrelevant, the odd and the unexplainable. Productivity is a destructive way to justify the individual’s value in a system that is naturally communal, not an individualistic or entrepreneurial zero-sum game to be won by the most industrious.</blockquote>

Libraries, she argued, “will always be at a disadvantage” to Google and Amazon because they value privacy; they refuse to exploit users’ private data to improve the search experience. Yet libraries’ failure to compete in efficiency is what affords them the opportunity to offer a “different kind of social reality.” I’d venture that there is room for entrepreneurial learning in the library, but there also has to be room for that alternate reality where knowledge needn’t have monetary value, where learning isn’t driven by a profit motive. We can accommodate both spaces for entrepreneurship and spaces of exception, provided the institution has a strong epistemic framing that encompasses both. This means that the library needs to know how to read itself as a social-technical-intellectual infrastructure."

…

"In libraries like BiblioTech — and the Digital Public Library of America — the collection itself is off-site. Do patrons wonder where, exactly, all those books and periodicals and cloud-based materials live? What’s under, or floating above, the “platform”? Do they think about the algorithms that lead them to particular library materials, and the conduits and protocols through which they access them? Do they consider what it means to supplant bookstacks with server stacks — whose metal racks we can’t kick, lights we can’t adjust, knobs we can’t fiddle with? Do they think about the librarians negotiating access licenses and adding metadata to “digital assets,” or the engineers maintaining the servers? With the increasing recession of these technical infrastructures — and the human labor that supports them — further off-site, behind the interface, deeper inside the black box, how can we understand the ways in which those structures structure our intellect and sociality?

We need to develop — both among library patrons and librarians themselves — new critical capacities to understand the distributed physical, technical and social architectures that scaffold our institutions of knowledge and program our values. And we must consider where those infrastructures intersect — where they should be, and perhaps aren’t, mutually reinforcing one another. When do our social obligations compromise our intellectual aspirations, or vice versa? And when do those social or intellectual aspirations for the library exceed — or fail to fully exploit — the capacities of our architectural and technological infrastructures? Ultimately, we need to ensure that we have a strong epistemological framework — a narrative that explains how the library promotes learning and stewards knowledge — so that everything hangs together, so there’s some institutional coherence. We need to sync the library’s intersecting infrastructures so that they work together to support our shared intellectual and ethical goals."]]></description>
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    <title>Corinne Hill: LJ’s 2014 Librarian of the Year</title>
    <dc:date>2014-04-30T18:18:44+00:00</dc:date>
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    <dc:creator>robertogreco</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["We knew Corinne Hill was destined to be a star back in 2004, when she was named an LJ Mover & Shaker. She had been a librarian for only eight years. A decade later, as executive director of the Chattanooga Public Library (CPL), she is the 2014 LJ Librarian of the Year, an award sponsored by Baker & Taylor. Hill’s career has climaxed in Chattanooga, where she has transformed what consultants June Garcia and Susan Kent called the “ugly, irrelevant, and mismanaged” public libraries of Hamilton County, TN, into the new and vibrant CPL. “She has fostered a culture of change and innovation that has affected nearly every aspect of the library,” says an August report in the Chattanooga Times/Free Press.

Prominent among her tools of transformation is the Gig Library Project. Chattanooga is the first city in the Western Hemisphere to offer one-gigabit-per-second fiber Internet service to all of its residents and businesses, which is driving a culture of technological innovation. “A gig city has to have a gig library,” Hill says. Under her leadership, CPL is one of the first libraries in the United States to offer free gig access to its residents. In addition to providing faster downloads of ebooks and other materials, the library’s gig access opens up partnering potential for the library and can help make it the “creative hub for the community,” Hill told LJ in 2012. “We are looking to create incubator space…. We want to try to address the needs of entrepreneurs,” Hill said."

…

"Once the look of the place was brightened and new, Hill moved on to rebuilding and reenergizing the library staff. The new CPL ED recruited young librarians, known innovators from all over the United States whose new ideas and projects had already made them library celebrities.
Nate Hill (no relation to the ED) came from San José, CA, to take over as assistant director for technology and digital initiatives in July 2012. Teen librarian Justin Hoenke was hired in November 2012 from the public library in Portland, ME. Youth service manager Alei Burns, who worked with Hill in Dallas, came to CPL in April. Systems administrator Meg Backus was wooed away from the Northern Onondaga Public Library in Cicero, NY, in September.

The new cadre was turned loose to transform CPL, bringing video games, programming tutorials, 3-D printing, rock music, and a new, up-to-date rendition of programs and services to citizens of all ages—an innovative, ever-changing package to awaken a library long ready for a new life. Most important, they brought the creativity to execute their ideas and inspiration. In less than two years, they have reinvented CPL.

One example is CPL’s 4th Floor, 14,000 square feet that for years was used to store archives, decorative art, and extra furniture. Under the direction of Nate Hill, who had been web librarian at the San José Public Library, it is now a creative, exciting laboratory and Maker space, full of cutting-edge equipment, including a high-resolution flatbed scanner and a 3-D printer, plus CPL’s gigabit Internet service.

In interviews on TV, former mayor Littlefield mentions the revival of CPL’s 4th Floor to show how Chattanooga is bringing new technology experts to city agencies.

Youth services manager Burns was a children’s librarian and assistant manager of a Dallas branch. Driven by her belief that libraries must reach out to children as early as possible, she is currently engaged in converting a moribund CPL branch into a special library for kids. “I would sign kids up in utero for summer reading if they would let me; they’re never too young,” Burns told a local reporter. She has already created CPL’s new Baby Bounce program for infants.

Hoenke moved CPL’s teen center to the second floor and converted it to a learning center and playground for adolescents, full of computers, video games, consoles, and manga.

Despite their differing responsibilities and specialties, the new team members work as a unit to reinvent CPL. “I think the chemistry we have is absolutely essential to the change that we’ve brought to this place,” Nate Hill says. “If the chemistry was wrong, it wouldn’t work this way.”"]]></description>
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    <dc:creator>robertogreco</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["This is a seminar about making. It’s run out of the Graduate School of Design, Harvard University, Spring, 2012.  We will focus on creating products, services & experiences, broadly defined, for the Harvard Library community. With generous funding provided by Prof. Robert Darnton and the Harvard Library Lab, projects will be deployed in «Test Kitchens» — partner libraries, such as the Loeb and Widener Libraries, that allocate portions of their public space to these experiments."]]></description>
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    <dc:creator>robertogreco</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["Undoubtedly libraries are a good thing. The access and training that we provide for technology isn't offered by any other public service (largely because public services are rapidly becoming a dirty word in this gilded age of decadence and austerity), and without our services it wouldn't be the end of the world, but it would be a significant dimming. 

If you can take yourself out of your first world techie social media smart-shoes for a second then imagine this… [lengthy case study]

So that little melodrama right there is every minute of every day at the public library…The digital divide isn't just access, but also ability, and quality of information, , and the common dignity of having equity of participation in our increasingly digital culture."

…

"Every day at my job I helped people just barely survive. Forget trying to form grass roots political activism by creating a society of computer users, forget trying to be the 'people's university' and create a body of well informed citizens. Instead I helped people navigate through the degrading hoops of modern online society, fighting for scraps from the plate, and then kicking back afterwards by pretending to have a farm on Facebook (well, that is if they had any of their 2 hours left when they were done). What were we doing during the nineties? What were we doing during the boom that we've been left so ill served during the bust? No one seems to know. They come in to our classes and ask us if we have any ideas, and I do, but those ideas take money, and political will, and guts, and the closer I get to graduation the less and less I suspect that any of those things exist."]]></description>
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    <dc:creator>robertogreco</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["The pun in the title is intended, of course, for here is a collection of 30-odd poems, stories, and articles on revolting librarians--those who revolt against the system and those who are revolting because they are the system."

Georgia Mulligan, College & research libraries
]]></description>
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    <title>David Byrne's Journal: 10.26.2011: Bogota Part 1</title>
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    <link>http://journal.davidbyrne.com/2011/10/10312011-bogota-part-1.html</link>
    <dc:creator>robertogreco</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["I was recently asked to do a conversation/talk with Janette Sadik-Kahn, our commissioner of transportation, at the  AIA New York Center for Architecture Center (American Institute of Architects).  Since I imagined there might be some architects or designers in the audience, I took some time to share some of my notes and photographs from my summer Latin American bikes and cities tour. I also took this opportunity to finally organize some of the notes I had taken and post them. So here it is, many months late."]]></description>
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    <title>Children of Troy « Snarkmarket</title>
    <dc:date>2011-06-09T05:41:23+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://snarkmarket.com/2011/6937</link>
    <dc:creator>robertogreco</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["This little correspondence cracked like lightning in my head. I mean, it’s no big deal; it’s a small thing, it’s a letter, they were both in Michigan, it makes perfect sense. And yet, and yet: Clifton Wharton, president of Michigan State University, and Marguerite Hart, librarian of Troy—a tangible thread connected them. And as soon as you realize that, you can’t help but imagine the other threads, the other connections, that all together make a net, woven before you were born, before you were even dreamed of—a net to catch you, support you, lift you up. Libraries and universities, books and free spaces—all for us, all of us, the children of Troy everywhere.

What fortune. Born at the right time."

[…]

"And it’s not the librarian laughing and crying at the same time here; it’s me. Every time I’ve read these letters, it’s me."]]></description>
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<item rdf:about="http://www.onlinebestcolleges.com/blog/2009/25-famous-librarians-who-changed-history/">
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    <link>http://www.onlinebestcolleges.com/blog/2009/25-famous-librarians-who-changed-history/</link>
    <dc:creator>robertogreco</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["Have you ever wondered the past life or secret dreams of your local librarian as they helped you find research paper resources and swiped the bar code on your books? As it turns out, a lot of world leaders, famous authors and legendary philosophers and scholars had careers as librarians. Read below to find out who."
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<item rdf:about="http://www.spinninglobe.net/condunces.htm">
    <title>Confederacy of Dunces: The Tyranny of Compulsory Schooling by John Taylor Gatto</title>
    <dc:date>2008-08-11T19:08:27+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.spinninglobe.net/condunces.htm</link>
    <dc:creator>robertogreco</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[[dead link, try: https://thesunmagazine.org/issues/204/confederacy-of-dunces ]

"Those of you with a historical imagination will recognize Thomas Jefferson's prayer for schooling - that it would teach useful knowledge. Some places do: the best schooling in the US today is coming out of museums, libraries, and private institutes...

Consider the difference between librarians and schoolteachers. Librarians are custodians of real books and real readers; schoolteachers are custodians of schoolbooks and indentured readers. Somewhere in the difference is the Rosetta Stone that reveals how education is one thing, schooling another."
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<item rdf:about="http://jaslarue.blogspot.com/2008/07/uncle-bobbys-wedding.html">
    <title>myliblog: Uncle Bobby's Wedding</title>
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    <link>http://jaslarue.blogspot.com/2008/07/uncle-bobbys-wedding.html</link>
    <dc:creator>robertogreco</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["if the library is doing its job, there are lots of books in our collection that people won't agree with; there are certainly many that I object to. Library collections don't imply endorsement; they imply access to the many different ideas of our culture, which is precisely our purpose in public life. ... Although I suspect you may not agree with my decision, I hope it's clear that I've given it a great deal of thought, and believe it is in accordance with both our guiding principles, and those, incidentally, of the founders of our nation."
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<item rdf:about="http://www.library.cmu.edu/Libraries/etc/index.html">
    <title>Carnegie Mellon Libraries:Library Arcade</title>
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    <link>http://www.library.cmu.edu/Libraries/etc/index.html</link>
    <dc:creator>robertogreco</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["The Library Arcade features games designed to help students develop research skills through entertaining and easy-to-repeat activities. At this stage, we are testing each game to work through any technical glitches and prepare the games for a final versi
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    <link>http://orweblog.oclc.org/archives/001523.html</link>
    <dc:creator>robertogreco</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["Did Borges ever imagine a library in which we could know which volumes users were thinking about consulting? [William Gibson]"
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