library58(digitalliteracy) It started innocently enough. While visiting the Rem Koolhaas-designed, Central Branch of the Seattle Public Library Danae Fallier began snapping photos of the iconic building and the books. When looking at the photographs she took that day she noticed that the text on the book spines had blurred and were no longer visible. It was then that her library series was born. The almost natural abstraction that appeared in those Seattle photographs motivated her to to start digitally manipulating a new group of library images. The photos in the library series are completely constructed. Gone is any text and added are...
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...
Seattle Public Library Unveils New Library Cards
If you are planning on signing up for a Seattle Public Library Card in 2013 you will now have a choice of cards. Five new library card designs have been unveiled, four featuring the iconic pillars of Seattle; the Pike Place Market, Space Needle, Mount Rainier and Central Library, and one specially designed for kids.Existing card holders can also swap out their old ones free of charge.I think I am going for "Opportunity."
Rem Koolhass Goes Back to the Library
Seattle Central Library. Photo Hoffman ConstructionHe's back! Hoping to build on the tremendous success of the Seattle Central Library, Rem Koolhaas and the OMA team are back. This time they're in Qatar to build the National Library.As ArchDaily said in they're look at the Seattle Central library project:The Seattle Central Library redefines the library as an institution no longer exclusively dedicated to the book, but as an information store where all potent forms of media—new and old—are presented equally and legibly. In an age where information can be accessed anywhere, it is the simultaneity of all media and, more importantly,...
Urgent Dispatch to Oz: Emerald City Library Needs Cash
The Seattle Public Library, one of the crown jewels of "The Emerald City" will be closing its doors, both real and virtual, for an entire week beginning Monday, August 31. The fact that one of the most book-friendly cities in the United States cannot keep its libraries open due to lack of funding is distressing in the extreme, and does not bode well for other municipalities.Nationwide, public libraries are being used more than ever according to the American Library Association. The trend is evident at the San Francisco Public Library which reports increases of 30% in customers, and 15% in...