Note: There is no sound on this videos - please choose your own background music and enjoy! If you do come up with the perfect soundtrack please let us know in the comments.Información Científica Internaciona (ICI) is first Mexican company formed by professional librarians and archivists to serve and cater to the libraries of Mexico and beyond..These videos, from late 2008, showcase a couple of contraptions used in the cleaning and maintenance of books. The English translates to Automatic Cleaning System and it looks like they took the technology of the car wash and applied it to books. Oh, and in the...
Ultimate Library
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Maira Kalman takes on the library at PS 47
In 2009, Maria Kalman transformed the library of PS 47 with an alphabet installation for the Robin Hood Foundation.In this video shot by her son Alex, Kalman talks of the project, schools as "temples of information and hope" and of the importance of reading and libraries.
New York Public Library’s newest branch will be housed in a condo-hotel
When it opens in 2015 it will be one of the largest branches of the New York Public Library system. It will occupy the bottom 3 floors of a "ritzy new condo-hotel" being developed by the Baccarat crystal company and its parent company, Starwood Capital Group, along with Tribeca Associates.Among its features is a 100+ seat auditorium, a children's reading room, a technology hub, and a family seating area."The airy, vibrant structure" is being designed by Enrique Norten’s TEN Arquitectos.Public Library President Tony Marx says the new library will "not only beautiful, but designed with flexibility to maximize public space, and serve all...
The Peoples’ Library: By the People, For the People | Library as Incubator Project
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