Every time I visit this building, I KNOW that there is no way it could have been built today. This opulence is 100% due to the Gilded Age wealth class.
COMMUNITIES AND MUSEUMS IN THE 21st CENTURY. Shared Histories and Climate Action.
Edited by Karen Brown, Alissandra Cummins, Ana S. González Rueda. #ICOM#Routledge#OpenAccess#Book 2023
"Communities and Museums in the 21st Century brings together innovative, multidisciplinary perspectives on contemporary museology and participatory museum practice that contribute to wider debates on museum communities, heritage, and sustainability."
"Communities and Museums in the 21st Century proposes creative and sustainable strategies relevant to a globalised future. With its focus on global societal challenges, this book will appeal to museologists and museum practitioners, as well as those working in heritage studies, cultural studies, memory studies, art history, gender studies, and sustainable development."
I lived in Newport, RI for a few years in the 2010s. A small city with a lot of residential wealth, it has a gorgeous and very well funded public library. I would visit it several times every week, and especially enjoyed browsing its wide shelves of new and recommended fiction and nonfiction, regularly rotated by a staff with excellent and diverse tastes.
I'd love to visit #NYC public #libraries more. Is there a branch you know of that offers something like this?
Fight for your libraries. Don’t let them take away your library by defunding it out of providing vital services. Don’t let them shackle the library with rules meant to prevent the right people from getting the right book to change their life. Don’t let them close the doors, because you know they will never open again. Fight for the freedom to read and explore new ideas. Fight against censorship and denying people the materials their souls need. If a library closes, it will never open again. You couldn’t create libraries today. You want to loan out books? And people will just willingly give them back? Are you mad? Naïve, perhaps? Once a library closes its doors, it’s over. The book banners have won. Do not let them win. Fight for libraries. Fight for library workers. Fight for patrons. Fight for free people reading freely. #libraries#censorship#librarians#LibraryWorkers#LibraryPatrons#BookBans
Proposed bill in Alabama to allow the arrest of librarians.
No one is perfect—not even librarians. But professional #librarians are terrific. They're dedicated public servants, and they know how to library better than politicians do.
It's our first time there and we'd love connect.
Would you like to exchange best practices, tips, and/or knowledge over coffee? We are interested in #communication strategies for libraries and everything #OpenScience-related. Let us know if you want to meet up!
'#Sharing with minimal #regulation? Evidence from neighborhood book exchange' by Anouk Schippers and Adriaan Soetevent is April's #OpenAccess publication in the spotlight.
Their study shows that peer-to-peer book exchanges, like little free #libraries, experience minimal free riding due to strong #SocialNorms among users, with a return rate of 9 #books for every 10 taken.
"It's not easy being an anti-DRM activist, especially heading into 2024. Not content with locking down software and streaming media, the massive corporations peddling this unjust technology have even extended their reach into the world's libraries. OverDrive is the worst of these offenders..." Read the full article about IDAD 2023: https://u.fsf.org/421#LearnLibre#EndDRM#Libraries#ebooks#DayAgainstDRM
With a Contra Costa County Library card, I have access to Consumer Report’s monthly issues online for free. Wonder where I can read articles from their website (not in the magazine) for free… #libraries#consumerreports
1 - England Today by the Portuguese Historian Oliveira Martins (a limited edition), a collection of travel letters about England (London, mostly?) originally published in a newspaper from Brasil in 1892, which I'm most curious about.
2 - A Portuguese translation of Jane Eyre
3 - The Halloween Tree by Bradbury translated as The Sacred Tree part of the #ColecçãoArgonauta that was published in Portugal more or less as a similar collection as #ColecçãoVampiro but for science fiction works
4 - Two volumes titled Facts, Persons, and Books. A collection of previously published (1953 - 1961) articles about literary genres, authors, language, translation, and other book related subjects
5 - A manual that teaches the process of bookbinding
"It's not easy being an anti-DRM activist, especially heading into 2024. Not content with locking down software and streaming media, the massive corporations peddling this unjust technology have even extended their reach into the world's libraries. OverDrive is the worst of these offenders..." Read the full article about IDAD 2023: https://u.fsf.org/421#LearnLibre#EndDRM#Libraries#ebooks#DayAgainstDRM