To add to our posts about libraries, other book-related matters, and wine-related repurposing, there’s this:
An obsolete card catalog repurposed as a minibar.
Need we say more?!
(photo via The Sugar Monster on Flickr)
When the University of Iowa Libraries retired its decades-old physical card catalog in 2004, librarians and library staff hoped to “find as many creative uses as possible for the salvaged card catalog cards and generate a sense of community among those who love the card catalog.” They offered cards to artists and students, among other people, who responded by crafting the 3” x 5” cards into works of art.
Pictured, from the cARTalog digital collection: Matt Pollard’s flip book, Gregory Galloway’s collage, and Sandy Brandes’s illustrated piece.
More: cARTalog - Iowa Digital Library
Other libraries, such as University of South Carolina’s, have commemorated their beloved, yet obsolete card catalogs in creative ways.
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![Via hydeordie:
Keith DuQuette Untitled (Library Catalog Card Bookshelf) 2011
One of the results of projects to bring our [the Brooklyn Museum] Libraries and Archives into the digital world is that we have boxes of cards—mostly typewritten or computer generated—available for the taking and ready to be transformed into a second life. Since the Library Staff has developed an Online Catalog and systematically checked information on the physical catalog cards with the data now residing in the electronic catalog, we invite you to contact us if you wish to visit and take some of the cards and report back to show us what you created with them.
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For inspiration, see this Unconsumption post about the San Francisco Public Library’s catalog card wallpaper.](http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_letlrwu4YD1qz849zo1_400.jpg)
Via hydeordie:
Keith DuQuette Untitled (Library Catalog Card Bookshelf) 2011
One of the results of projects to bring our [the Brooklyn Museum] Libraries and Archives into the digital world is that we have boxes of cards—mostly typewritten or computer generated—available for the taking and ready to be transformed into a second life. Since the Library Staff has developed an Online Catalog and systematically checked information on the physical catalog cards with the data now residing in the electronic catalog, we invite you to contact us if you wish to visit and take some of the cards and report back to show us what you created with them.
For inspiration, see this Unconsumption post about the San Francisco Public Library’s catalog card wallpaper.
Rad: the San Francisco Library uses old catalog cards as wallpaper. (via @speelunk)
![The Richmond Grows Seed Lending Library in the main Richmond Public Library (in Richmond, California) enables area residents to “borrow” seeds from its collection and “return” seeds from the plants grown from them.
“An offshoot of Richmond Rivets, an organization building community resilience to climate change and fossil fuel shortages, Richmond Grows is part of a network of homegrown programs like Urban Tilth, which promotes food gardening in schools and on the Richmond Greenway (the repurposed former Southern Pacific right of way) and the Five Percent Local Coalition, pushing local food production.”
“A couple dozen Richmond residents have already signed up to check out seed. [Project co-founder Catalin] Kaser describes them as ‘people from all the neighborhoods, not just middle-class urban gardeners.’ Some are apartment-dwellers with limited growing space. ‘We hope it becomes a way people can connect. I’ve seen people at the orientations offering to share cuttings.’ For some, it’s as basic as food on the table. But Kaser knows a local gardener who doesn’t like vegetables, and gives his crops away: ‘He grows his vegetables just because he can.’”
Appropriately, the seeds are stored in an old library card catalog (cabinet).
Full story: Seed-saver library sprouts in Richmond [CA] — SFGate.com
[hat tip to Irene Nelson (@irenelson on Twitter]](http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_l6u4tqDOqS1qzv12bo1_400.jpg)
The Richmond Grows Seed Lending Library in the main Richmond Public Library (in Richmond, California) enables area residents to “borrow” seeds from its collection and “return” seeds from the plants grown from them.
“An offshoot of Richmond Rivets, an organization building community resilience to climate change and fossil fuel shortages, Richmond Grows is part of a network of homegrown programs like Urban Tilth, which promotes food gardening in schools and on the Richmond Greenway (the repurposed former Southern Pacific right of way) and the Five Percent Local Coalition, pushing local food production.”
“A couple dozen Richmond residents have already signed up to check out seed. [Project co-founder Catalin] Kaser describes them as ‘people from all the neighborhoods, not just middle-class urban gardeners.’ Some are apartment-dwellers with limited growing space. ‘We hope it becomes a way people can connect. I’ve seen people at the orientations offering to share cuttings.’ For some, it’s as basic as food on the table. But Kaser knows a local gardener who doesn’t like vegetables, and gives his crops away: ‘He grows his vegetables just because he can.’”
Appropriately, the seeds are stored in an old library card catalog (cabinet).
Full story: Seed-saver library sprouts in Richmond [CA] — SFGate.com
[hat tip to Irene Nelson (@irenelson on Twitter]
