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A Free Beginner's Guide to the Sharing Economy
For over two years, Shareable has explored the new sharing economy in its many forms: how individuals, families, communities, entrepreneurs, businesses, designers, coders, and countless more are...
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Building A National Digital Library
At the heart of the public library mission is a commitment to providing free and open access to information. Yet in an increasingly digital world, mountains of hard copy library materials remain...
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How to Create a Pop-Up Library
It was a grey and rainy New York day when Adam Wiesehan and Margaret Day brought their pop-up library to life. They had been working to find a way to combine Adam’s architectural training and interest...
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Burning Books...For The Commons?
CORRECTION: This post erroneously credits the Troy Public Library for the "Adventures in Reverse Psychology" campaign. In reality, it was a viral campaign by the Leo Burnett advertising agency, which...
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Abandoned Walmart Recycled As Public Library
The news that a city will be getting a new Walmart often evokes a mixture of dread, anger, and apathy from its residents.The global giant has captured a huge portion of the discount retail market...
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Everyone’s a Maker at this Library Maker Space
It’s an interesting time for libraries. With the widespread availability of e-books and the mountains of reference materials available online, libraries are taking a critical look at their offerings...
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This Week in Sharing: 3D Printing Upgrades to Prime Rib
In 1904, When William and Mary Goodwin sang "Oh, give me the steed and the gun that I need, to shoot game for my own cabin home" in their version of "Home on the Range", they couldn't have imagined...
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How to Start a Tool Library in Your Community
Tool libraries, which have been around since at least the 1970s, offer communities a way to share resources that would otherwise spend the vast majority of the time sitting in drawers and garages. They...
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Libraries Reinvented as Laboratories
From their inception, libraries were designed to be hubs of information. What that looked like for a long time was that they housed books and other media including music, film and historic documents....
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Re-imagining Libraries: A Book Needs Your Help!
A little over a year ago, I was asked to give a talk at the opening of a library. Nothing really special you would think, except for two things: the opening was in the same week the local council...
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This Week in Sharing: Urban Design, Car Sharing, and Open Source
Everything about our lives is shifting right under our feet. And it's all moving toward more shareable models. From the food we eat to the cars we drive, new and improved ways of moving through the...
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This Week in Sharing: Libraries, Cities, and Data
Because open data breeds transparency which leads to innovation: "The Town of Cary (North Carolina) joins other communities throughout the United States and declares Saturday, February 23, 2013, as...
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The Digital Public Library of America Goes Live
Public libraries exist to ensure that people have free and open access to information. The Digital Public Library of America (DPLA), which launched last week, aims to provide that same access to...
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Lessons from Koha in Open Source Project Ownership
This article originally appeared on OpenSource.com and is republished with permission. Author Mark Johnson is Development Manager for OSS Watch, the open source software advisory service. He...
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Food For Thought: Why Barcelona’s Markets Are “Super” Places
This article originally appeared on PPS.org and is republished with permission.When you think of the important places in the social life of your community, what comes to mind? Parks, squares, street...
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What Young People Really Want From Libraries
What do young Americans want from their public libraries? Not just video games, ebooks and digital tools. A recent report, titled Younger Americans’ Library Habits and Expectations notes that while...
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Vinyl Lending Library Puts New Spin On Sharing Music
Vinyl records are back. According to the International Federation of the Phonographic Industry (what a mouthful!), 2012 saw the highest vinyl sales in 16 years. I've seen this trend with my own eyes....
View ArticleThe Launch of A Community Sharing Hub
With all the justified excitement forming around the burgeoning sharing economy, we sometimes overlook the fact that sharing is indeed a very old tradition. Though use of the internet and social media...
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Everything about our lives is shifting right under our feet. And it's all moving toward more shareable models. From the food we eat to the cars we drive, new and improved ways of moving through the...
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Because open data breeds transparency which leads to innovation: "The Town of Cary (North Carolina) joins other communities throughout the United States and declares Saturday, February 23, 2013, as...
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