Hip, Creative, Cool! “NYC Librarian Uses ‘Tilda Swinton In A Box’ Method To Raise Awareness”
UPDATED May 25: Added Audio Report (Link Below)
We love this! Kudos Kristy!
From Gothamist:
A librarian at the New York Public Library‘s Webster Library branch on the Upper East Side is taking the Tilda approach to raise awareness about NYPL budget cuts. She has placed herself on display behind glass, but instead of doing this for Art, Kristy Raffensberger is in the display case “to create awareness of the recently proposed $47 million budget cut.
Raffensberger is a Children’s Librarian at NYPL with an MLS from the Pratt Institute.
Read the Complete Article, View Image of Raffensberger “In the Box”
More About Raffensberger in this Audio Report, “Upper East Side Librarian Puts On Display To Raise Awareness About Proposed Budget Cuts” (via CBS New York/1010 WINS)
See Also: Actress Tilda Swinton sleeps in glass box for NY museum performance (via Reuters)
Filed under: Libraries, News, Public Libraries
About Gary Price
Gary Price (gprice@gmail.com) is a librarian, writer, consultant, and frequent conference speaker based in the Washington D.C. metro area. He earned his MLIS degree from Wayne State University in Detroit. Price has won several awards including the SLA Innovations in Technology Award and Alumnus of the Year from the Wayne St. University Library and Information Science Program. From 2006-2009 he was Director of Online Information Services at Ask.com. Gary is also the co-founder of infoDJ an innovation research consultancy supporting corporate product and business model teams with just-in-time fact and insight finding.
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