Bonnie WildieAug 15, 2023

Re: the book shelf design
“Their curves intentionally contrast the carceral system’s rigid architecture and echo a Martin Luther King Jr. quote about the arc of the moral universe bending toward justice. “

https://www.surfacemag.com/articles/freedom-reads-libraries-in-prisons/

#libraries #GLAM #GLAMPD #prisonlibraries

The Nonprofit Building High-Design Libraries in Prisons – SURFACE

Freedom Reads, a nonprofit founded by Reginald Dwayne Betts, is on a mission to build libraries in prisons across the United States.

SURFACE
Bonnie WildieAug 10, 2023

More radical online search experiments please

https://aeon.co/essays/the-1970s-librarians-who-revolutionised-the-challenge-of-search

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The 1970s librarians who revolutionised the challenge of search | Aeon Essays

A group of 1970s campus librarians foresaw our world of distributed knowledge and research, and designed search tools for it

Aeon
Bonnie WildieJul 30, 2023

Hello lovelies

I’m on the lookout for any GLAM related newsletters you might be making (I already subscribe to a few and they are very excellent and just the thing). Let me know so I can hit subscribe!

(I’m just a gal, calling out to Masto, hoping to rebuild her info network)

#GLAM #GLAMPD #OzGLAM #libraries #archives #professionalreading