The Pararchive Project

Claire Adler – Heritage Lottery Fund Appointed Special Advisor for Community and Learning – shares ten essential tips on how to develop an HLF funded project.

You might think of it as a “secret decoder ring” for information we leave for the future in human language form. hopesandfears.com/hopes/future/technology/168465-future-of-libraries

With this approach, libraries have: Developed new spaces that promote play as a central part of childhood learning Engaged teens in maker­-oriented events that encourage deeper, long­lasting connections with librarians Created new programs that facilitate users to teach one another about digital media resources Design thinking is a creative approach, or a series of steps,…

As Barack Hussein Obama reaches the end of his term as POTUS, plans for his presidential library are beginning to emerge. With most presidential materials from the current being born digital, the Obama Presidential Library could be radically different from its predecessors… …it’s likely that Obama won’t have the voluminous amounts of papers, letters, and other correspondence…