Alternative Artist Influence Library 
Museum 2.0
JULY 26, 2010
In the past, I've highlighted a few--like 826 Valencia and the Denver Community Museum --that I think have already influenced the way many traditional cultural organization do business. It's run by Jon Rubin, an artist and professor of social practice at Carnegie Mellon, and his students. Chicago Underground Library (Chicago, IL).
Museum 2.0
AUGUST 8, 2010
Last month, I got a chance to talk with Nell Taylor, founder of the Chicago Underground Library. That means we collect university press, handmade artist books, zines made by sixth graders, poetry chapbooks from big names published in tiny local presses, and self-published poetry chapbooks sold for a dollar on the street.
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Museum 2.0
OCTOBER 23, 2013
They closed for capricious financial reasons, and they left disappointed artists and participants in their wake. What''s the alternative to this waste? House your program in an underutilized library. Museum of Art and History Unusual Projects and Influences business models' Could each have offered MORE community value?
Museum 2.0
DECEMBER 29, 2009
It's my "artistic rendering" of one of the most inspirational participatory projects I know of--the Bibliotheek Haarlem Oost book drops. Haarlem Oost is a branch library in the Netherlands that wanted to encourage visitors to add tags (descriptive keywords) to the books they read. A Dutch friend volunteered to go snap the library.
Museum 2.0
SEPTEMBER 29, 2009
You earned your private reading tree or library back corner, and each visit continues to confirm your value as a special and clever person. In 2007, I interviewed digital artist Jason Nelson about his work creating strange games and he talked at length about the beauty of working with hidden things and creating intentional "weirdness."
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