the edgy librarian

the edgy librarian is an online curator- both interested in design and the implementation of information in social networks. the digital information revolution has begun!

CULTURAL HERITAGE ICONATHON

METRO is excited to announce an upcoming Cultural Heritage Iconathon to be held in conjunction with The Noun Project. 

Iconathons are free, hackathon-style design workshops to develop public domain icons for use by specific professional or civic communities. The Cultural Heritage Iconathon is a result of a collaborative effort between The Noun Project and METRO to design icons for use by libraries, archives, museums, and other cultural heritage organizations.

The Cultural Heritage Iconathon will be held at METRO on Saturday, June 1. Seating is limited. Free tickets are available at: http://culturalheritageiconathon.eventbrite.com/

At the Cultural Heritage Iconathon, designers, librarians, and other cultural heritage professionals and students will work side by side to create symbols for use in organizations like libraries, museums, archives, and historical societies. These icons will depict the many services and activities performed by these institutions.

The icons created will be released into the public domain to be used in signage and interactives, as well as to illustrate on-site services, Web pages, online catalogs, mobile applications, and to identify and symbolize many of the other offerings of cultural heritage organizations.  Previous Iconathons have created public domain symbols for Wikipedia, Investigative Journalism, and Disaster Relief.

The Noun Project works with designers and creative communities around the world to build a visual language of symbols that anyone can use to communicate. Iconathons bring together designers, subject-expert professionals, and the public to design icons for use in specific domains. Metropolitan New York Library Council is a consortium of libraries, archives, museums, and non-profits in New York City and Westchester County. 

The full press release is available at: http://metro.org/files/605/

For additional information, contact Jefferson Bailey, jbailey@metro.org, 212.228.2320 x115. 

Library icon by Unknown from The Noun Project
Archive icon by Cris Dobbins from The Noun Project
Museum icon by Henrique Martins Godeny from The Noun Project 

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Who else but the librarian is going to teach attribution and Creative Commons? Who else but the librarian is going to be able to filter through millions of research results, then curate and create a playlist of amazing resources in just a few minutes for the eager student? We are vital and we are valuable! Now let’s go out there, step up up our game, and spread the word!

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Gwyneth Jones, Who Needs A Librarian When You Have Google? (via librarylinknj)

These are some of the reasons I think the internet is making librarians more necessary, not less.

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Face it: most librarians are probably cooler than you. After all, their job is to wrangle books, attract readers, and then get the two together — one of our own favorite activities. Though for many years, the librarian stereotype was a severe old lady who couldn’t stand excessive noise, the mold has changed (to the extent that even the New York Times has noticed). Now, many librarians are punk-rock agents of social change, complete with tattoos, tech savvy, and new ideas to get books to the people.

Libraries Changed My Life

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Real life accounts from library patrons whose lives have been changed for the better by libraries.

Everyone, share the impact libraries and librarians have had on your lives—ALL submissions are welcome and encouraged. Take a moment and tell your story!

Important!

myimaginarybrooklyn:Interactive 3D Gallery for the St Chad Gospels. “I am delighted through my continued collaboration with Lichfield Cathedral to offer a 3D Gallery that includes sixteen interactive 3D images of the St Chad Gospels. It can be accessed here or through the drop-down list for the St Chad Gospels in the upper menu bar. The 3D Gallery is set up to function as a workspace, allowing you to measure any feature on a page; create annotations (I have a sample annotation for page 5, the Chi-Rho); and generate a URL for the exact view in which you have manipulated a 3D image, enabling you to return easily to the position, send it to a colleague or friend, and/or use it as a citation.” -Bill Endres (Click link below.)

myimaginarybrooklyn:Interactive 3D Gallery for the St Chad Gospels.

“I am delighted through my continued collaboration with Lichfield Cathedral to offer a 3D Gallery that includes sixteen interactive 3D images of the St Chad Gospels. It can be accessed here or through the drop-down list for the St Chad Gospels in the upper menu bar.

The 3D Gallery is set up to function as a workspace, allowing you to measure any feature on a page; create annotations (I have a sample annotation for page 5, the Chi-Rho); and generate a URL for the exact view in which you have manipulated a 3D image, enabling you to return easily to the position, send it to a colleague or friend, and/or use it as a citation.”

-Bill Endres

(Click link below.)

libraryjournal:Magazine Vital Signs: Best Magazines of 2012 Big budgets and wide distribution aren’t enough on their own to sustain a magazine. Witness the demise of Holmes: The Magazine To Make It Right after less than two years of publication. Occasionally, it’s the low-budget, kitchen table–produced new periodicals that end up showing the most resiliency. An example of a past “best magazine of the year” published on a shoestring is hand-sewn Vintage, which against this reviewer’s expectations has published three issues and continues to thrive.

libraryjournal:Magazine Vital Signs: Best Magazines of 2012

Big budgets and wide distribution aren’t enough on their own to sustain a magazine. Witness the demise of Holmes: The Magazine To Make It Right after less than two years of publication. Occasionally, it’s the low-budget, kitchen table–produced new periodicals that end up showing the most resiliency. An example of a past “best magazine of the year” published on a shoestring is hand-sewn Vintage, which against this reviewer’s expectations has published three issues and continues to thrive.