Todd Sattersten on Books

What is A Book? from Todd Sattersten on Vimeo.

For more about Todd, please go to http://toddsattersten.com/

Pop-Up Libraries

Chinatown Storefront Library from Chris Lovett on Vimeo.

For a temporary space, they have beautiful fixtures.  Love the film they used on the window.  Forget pop-up retail (that's so 2004), temporary micro-niche libraries are the next big thing.

Skokie Public Library Staff Appreciation Video

The Library Strikes Back from Richard on Vimeo.

Jarrod Beglinger

Image: Jarrod Beglinger's 45º Chair & 10 Degree Stepstool

Jarrod's work is downright awesome. He's received some great press from Dwell, and he is looking to take his 10 Degree Stepstool from prototype to production. Check out his company's site at www.officeforlostobjects.com and head on over to Kickstarter to help him turn his 10 Degree Stepstool into production reality.

Google's Personalized Search: Is It Relevant?

Google announces that Personalized Search will now be default. That could be good, but that could also be bad.

I worry that, in Google's quest for relevant search results, it may be undermining what it is trying to develop--relevancy.

Say a student uses Google all the time to conduct research, but they do not critically evaluate the websites they use (i.e. they don't have good information literacy skills). Let's say the student pulls information from sites that do not have a vetting process. Google's Personalized Search will rank the student's usual sources over others like .edu sites. Furthermore, general users like our hypothetical student rarely go beyond the first page of results. Thus, Google reinforces the student's poor searching habits while the student believes they are obtaining relevant information. However, the information is not relevant if it is incorrect.

To opt out of personalized search, go here.

ARLIS/NA Art Documentation Cover Contest

Hurray for change :)  Let's keep innovating.

To see all the potential covers, go to http://www.arlisna.org/artdoc/submissions.html