A working library is a project about work, reading & technology by mandy brown.
What Libraries Actually Do – Libraries as Epistemic Institutions
One of the biggest challenges for libraries telling their story is that the library means something different depending on who’s in the room. For a student, it’s a place to study and a staff full of people who want them to succeed. For a faculty member, it might be the invisible infrastructure that delivers electronic articles or the subject liaison who visits their class each year. For a graduate student, it’s often something more: a research partner, a data collaborator, a guide through the methodological expectations of a discipline. And that’s before accounting for the larger information environment that those users are already swimming in, where disciplines publish at high rates; trade publications and newsletters and Substacks produce sense-making content daily; and social media, messaging apps, and community channels add still more. The information environment is a flood around us, and the library is one stream of that flow.
Wragge Labs
A compilation of things I've built over the last 30 years to help people see and use the online collections of libraries, archives, and museums.
Library — The Idealists Collective
Project MUSE - Technology and Below-the-Line Labor in the Copyfight over Intellectual Property
Project MUSE promotes the creation and dissemination of essential humanities and social science resources through collaboration with libraries, publishers, and scholars worldwide. Forged from a partnership between a university press and a library, Project MUSE is a trusted part of the academic and scholarly community it serves.
For The People
We all love libraries, and we all love reading - but that’s not enough. It’s essential that more leftists become involved in their local libraries. We’re being out-organized by a right-wing movement that’s focused on taking over public institutions to privatize & weaken them.
Welcome
I also work extensively with Project Jupyter, particularly the Binder Project and Jupyter Book.
Hardcover
We're a social network for book lovers to find life changing books, track what you read & want to read, and connect with passionate readers.
Dragoncatcher the blog
Robin Sloan's lab notebook, about media and technology, creative computing, AI aesthetics, & more.
Interface Craft
A working library for those committed to designing with uncommon care.
Everything is Miscellaneous
I’m at a Hubweek event called “Libraries: The Next Generation.” It’s a panel hosted by the Berkman Center with Dan Cohen, the executive director of the DPLA; Andromeda Yelton, a developer who has done work with libraries; and Jeffrey Schnapp of metaLab
Home - EveryLibrary Action (NEW)
Take a moment and add your name to the growing list of library supporters in the United States.
William Blake: the scourge of the tyrants
Discover and share books you love on Goodreads.
Martin Eden by Jack London
Free kindle book and epub digitized and proofread by volunteers.
Magic Paper
Working notes by Michael Nielsen, November 2017. Followup to (but doesn't require) my notes on Chalktalk.
Libby
All over the world, local libraries offer millions of ebooks and audiobooks. You can borrow them — for free, instantly — with a library card and Libby: the award-winning, much-loved app for libraries.