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The Reading Room by Barbara Earl Thomas
[caption id="attachment_3233" align="aligncenter" width="600"] The Reading Room[/caption] I am a storyteller, a recycler of memory and everyday acts - Barbara Earl Thomas After a six year break from the gallery world Barbara Earl Thomas is letting us see her work again. Why such a long hiatus? Thomas was all in at the Northwest African American Museum, spending most of the six years as Executive Director. The commitment to the museum, which she also help found, limited her energies but now, with the museum years behind her, she's back. And how lucky for us that her first exhibited work is a series...
Library Science 101: So you want to be a librarian?
There will always be a need for a human to help with the "organization and processing of information." It wouldn't hurt if they minored in social work. Created for: USC's Online Master of Library Management Program
Julian Montague’s invented intellectual history of pest control
As part of his 2010 site-specific installation, Secondary Occupants Collected & Observed at Black & White Gallery, Julian Montague invented a intellectual history of pest control through covers of fictitious paperbacks. In addition to the covers the installation , which examined multiple aspects of animal/architecture engagement, included a rotten garden shed, 48 portrait banners and an assemblage of different specimens found and multiple photographs taken in the process of researching wildlife and architecture. Montague's appreciation for book cover design goes much deeper. Aside from his creations above he also maintains the Daily Book Graphics Project, a blog where he posts "some sort...
A Drone in the Library
[youtube]http://youtu.be/r9FMlv5a_FI[/youtube] We waited until the library closed—we didn't want to scare the pants off our patrons—and at twilight we set forth on our mission: to document the main branch on video from angles rarely seen by our visitors. Lucy IV is a DJI Phantom quadcopter drone, and when loaded up with the camera equipment—in this case alternating between a GoPro and an iPhone—she weighs just around 2 lbs. Finally, the use of a drone for the public good. Three cheers for the NYPL! Flying a Drone Around the Stephen A. Schwarzman Building | The New York Public Library.