Wear a mask and let dog be your copilot
Wear a mask and let dog be your copilot
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New issue of my newsletter: “Humane Ingenuity 24: Witness and Withness”—how libraries/archives can bear witness to the long and brutal history of racism; experimenting w/ low and high tech to make us feel closer together; maps that lie and tell the truth
Morning
And these neighbors have decided to go straight to Halloween. I get it.
Over a hundred days in and things are finally getting weird in the neighborhood. One of our neighbors built a dunk booth—kid hits a target with a ball and a five gallon bucket of water drops on the parent
Much wisdom here from @jenorr on her blog about our forthcoming necessarily imperfect fall school season.
If you could use five minutes of pure fun and incredible talent, may I recommend this video of the proto-breakdancing all-stars The Lockers on the first season of SNL? (via @tombreihan’s The Number Ones blog)
For teens doing their best to social distance, this summer is a brutal marshmallow test, but instead of being alone in a room with the marshmallow, they are in a glass box watching other teens gorging on marshmallows, with phones showing their friends gobbling marshmallows.
Evening
Long article in the Chronicle of Higher Ed on what campuses will look like in the fall, from classrooms to dorms to cafeterias and it doesn’t mention…libraries. Not a surprise; libraries pose incredibly complex issues. (I probably will write about this.)
How is this comfortable?
New issue of my newsletter: “Humane Ingenuity 23: Reframing Time & Saving Culture”—thoughts on “reopening” a library; how to lengthen your time horizon; preserving local music; strikingly modern images from 1430 & 1880. (Subscribe)
When my mask is dangling around my neck I like to pretend I’m Dr. Fink
Fellow library directors: I’ve found this IFLA page on reopening strategies/techniques helpful. (Also, I don’t like the word “reopening”; my library is open in many ways, providing digital resources/virtual services—it’s just the building that’s closed.)
Just stretching
Truth really is stranger than fiction
New issue of my newsletter: “Humane Ingenuity 22: More Creative Reuses”—re-enacting works of art on Instagram is fine, but here are much more creative approaches to reusing art; the tech of remote learning 2000 yrs ago; and more. (Subscribe)
Possession is nine-tenths of the law
My method for delivering packages safely to my mother is now indistinguishable from the handoffs used by spies.
A reminder that the Digital Public Library of America has thousands of high-quality ebooks in EPUB format to download to e-readers, as well as millions of digitized public domain and other freely available books.