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Carrier Books
Daniel Oyolu
Untitled 1 01
Library Island

jess yurko
Untitled 1 01
Library Island
Lauren
Progress
Anamorphic Signage

jess yurko
Wboard
Rewritable Signage (or, whiteboards everywhere)
Matthew
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No-Screen Outdoor Slideshow (aka viewmasters)
jess yurko
Ec v2
Electric Campfire
jess yurko
Librarymachine exercise  1
Library Machines
jess yurko
Reading room.106
Inflatable Reading Room
jess yurko
Topical.001
Topical Tables
jess yurko
Progress
Anamorphic Signage
jess yurko
Title Tags Ingredients Creator
Grid List
Carrier Books Secrets
Messages
envelope
note paper
book
paste
Daniel Oyolu
Library Island park
environment
Lauren
Rewritable Signage (or, whiteboards everywhere) signage
wayfinding
place
identity
whiteboard paint
dry-erase markers
white board
Matthew
No-Screen Outdoor Slideshow (aka viewmasters) exhibition digital photos jess yurko
Electric Campfire infrastructure
charging
car batteries
wheels
paint
casters
wood
jess yurko
Library Machines templates
activities
participation
pens
clipboards
paper
jess yurko
Inflatable Reading Room reading room
workspace
inflatable
environment
mylar
tape
zipper
fan
jess yurko
Topical Tables audio
workstation
table
surface speaker
music
audio recordings
jess yurko
Anamorphic Signage signage
wayfinding
place
identity
paint
projector
pencils
jess yurko
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Starting at Harvard in 2011, the Library Test Kitchen is a seminar and community bringing together librarians, students, and designers to discover innovative new programs, services, and spatial strategies for libraries. Participants created wifi-proof booths, study carrels for napping, and digital campfires for charging devices convivially. Over its life, the seminar created a pop-up library lab in a retail storefront space in Harvard Square, visited SXSW, and moved from Harvard to the Graduate School of Library and Information Science at Simmons College. Now, it's forking again, into a cookbook in parts: first, this platform for sharing "recipes" for playful, participatory innovation in libraries; and second, a book, to be published by MIT Press. And you can contribute! Feel free to browse the recipes collected here—and to use them, share them, adapt them, and share back, by contributing recipes of your own!

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