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Darius Kazemi: How to be a library archive tourist
Darius Kazemi: How to be a library archive tourist
When I'm traveling and am at a loss for how to spend my time, I look up as many libraries I can in the area I'll be traveling to, and I check to see if they have special collections. Then I make an appointment with the library to visit those special collections, and usually it means I get to spend a day in a quiet, climate-controlled room with cool old documents. It's like a museum but with no people, and where you have to do all the work, which is honestly my idea of a perfect vacation.
·tinysubversions.com·
Darius Kazemi: How to be a library archive tourist
The Human Library
The Human Library
‘Structured to mimic real library browsing, participants would search the card catalog, apply for a library card, and then check out one of the 35 books as they became available. The book titles, chosen by the “books” themselves, included “Custodian,” “Evangelical Christian,” “Fat Woman,” “Feminist,” “Iraq War Veteran,” “LDS Missionaries (Mormon),” “Olympic Athlete,” “Orphanage Boy,” “Psychiatrist,” and “Queer,” among others. Readers and books engaged in one-on-one conversations that lasted 30 minutes.’
·humanlibrary.org·
The Human Library
Open Library: About Us
Open Library: About Us
"What if there was a library which held every book? Not every book on sale, or every important book, or even every book in English, but simply every book." Aaron Swartz is at it again!
·demo.openlibrary.org·
Open Library: About Us