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Books, Blocks and Bullets

On How My Brazilian Library Feeds from Fragments of a Concrete RealityFrom review in the Irish Times on An ominous note is even more clearly sounded in a 2008 sculpture, On How My Brazilian Library Feeds from Fragments of a Concrete Reality. Books and journals about Brazilian architecture and culture are interspersed with polished concrete blocks in stacks like tower blocks. Walk around to the rear of the stacks, look closely and you see that the blocks are studded with embedded bullets: a subtle but very effective image. Books, blocks and bullets are presented as a continuum. Perhaps Garaicoa is alluding...

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Invest in Your Library

Next week, for the second year in a row, the entire Seattle Public Library System will close for a week. In Tacoma, Washington an entry-level job opening for a librarian’s assistant drew 548 applicants within the first week of the job posting. The same song is playing In Orange County, California the  Fullerton Public Library has taken matters into its own hands. With Libraries need investment

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