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Stop-motion video shows books at play after the bookshop owner has gone
Check out this very cool stop-motion animation from Type Books a Toronto bookshop as “their shelves mysteriously and mischievously reorganizing themselves after everyone has gone home.” Book lovers everywhere will be delighted to see print books “come alive” in this obviously [...]
Read More... →Mystery book sculpture artist blazes a trail with amazing gifts
Perhaps one of the biggest mystery of this past summer in the UK was “an anonymous artist … delighting Edinburgh’s literary scene by leaving a series of intricate book sculptures on the doorsteps of various local institutes and art groups that support literature.” [...]
Read More... →An Unusual Library Finds a New Home
This article from the NY Times discusses the Read/Write Library, Chicago’s largest depository of grass-roots printed materials. “Formerly known as the Chicago Underground Library, Read/Write rejects the selectivity of traditional libraries and collects “anything from university press to handmade artists’ books to zines made by [...]
Read More... →Librarians have a reputation for being quiet and well-behaved. But not Washington State University librarian Lara Cummings during her Haunted Library Tours. She howls. She shrieks. She leaps from behind walls to spook tour members. “She’s hilarious. Who’d have guessed it could be so fun to learn their way around a library?” said Brie Brenner, [...]
Read More... →Singing Sashimi and Making a Robot with Mom: My Visit to the Future at Maker Faire
The World Maker Faire brings amateur and professional tinkerers, geeks, and artists together for a weekend of “serious fun.”
Credo Reference Performs the “Dewey Song”
Credo Reference employees perform the “Dewey Song” as a shout-out to Jenny [...]
Read More... →Submitted by James Marsh, The Book House:
Just read your ATG Book of the Week on Noah Webster. I thought you might get a kick out of the following link that my daughter is involved with: www.mikesmaze.com . It’s a corn maze in western MA with Noah as this year’s “subject.”
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