The latest entry in the elite coolest libraries on the planet club comes from Calgary, Alberta, Canada. The competition-winning design from Snøhetta and DIALOG rings in the new while melding into the surrounding communities. The new design will realize the city’s vision for a technologically advanced public space for innovation, research and collaboration while embracing the city’s diverse urban culture and unique climate. Upon entering the library, visitors encounter a lobby awash with natural light. Your eye is drawn up through the sky lit atrium where clear visibility of the library’s public program and circulation along the atrium’s perimeter serve as a wayfinding...
Get Busy at the Library
September is National Library Card Sign-up Month, a national celebration of public libraries and time to make sure that students have the most important school supply of all -- a free Library card. As a reminder of the plethora of offerings available at most libraries The Seattle Public Library has put out a list packed with opportunities to enrich your life. Here are 30 things you can do for free at The Seattle Public Library: 1. Visit a museum - we've just added the Museum of Flight and the Museum of History and Industry. 2. Learn how to write. 3. Publish your e-book. 4. Watch a...
Need Help? There are 165,986 librarians across the U.S.: Checking Out America’s Libraries (Infographic)
Infographic courtesy of H&R Block (not sure what their relationship to libraries is) h/t Electric Literature
Gay Fairy Tale Book in Public Libraries Irks the American Family Association
The book is called The Princes and the Treasure and features two handsome princes who go on a quest to save a princess, but ultimately fall in love with each other. The book is written by Jeffrey A. Miles, a professor at the University of the Pacific, who has been married to his husband for 5 years. The book may be available in a public library near you and that has got the American Family Association in a tizzy. Yes, the same group that claims "a drag queen was behind the USPS Harvey Milk stamp" has come out against the book. Bryan Fischer,...
Walker Evans visits the New York Public Library
In 1949 noted photographer Walker Evans visited the New York Library and began shooting. When he was done 68 images where in the bag. Now thanks to the recent release of a treasure trove of hundreds of thousands of digital images from the Metropolitan Museum of Art we get a front seat. The library acquired Walker Evans archive in 1994. See the entire shoot here: Walker Evans | [68 Views of New Y rk Public Library...The Metropolitan Museum of Art.