Updates about our work
Uni at Biblioball 2011
On Saturday, Dec 3, 2011, the Uni will make an appearance at the one and only Biblioball! Learn more about Biblioball 2011 (benefits Literacy for Incarcerated Teens) and the remarkable DeskSet, a group of New York City area librarians, archivists, bibliophiles who...
Uni meets Brian Lehrer
So ends another busy week for the Uni. First, thank you to Linda Johnson, Brooklyn Public Library President, Richard Reyes-Gavilan, Central Library Director, and all the BPL staff and Uni volunteers who pulled together last Sunday's collaborative Uni/BPL reading room...
Uni + Brooklyn Public Library
On Sunday, Sep. 18, we'll collaborate with the Brooklyn Public Library to create a reading room for children on Borough Hall Plaza at the Brooklyn Book Festival. We'll be testing our rapid deployment skills once again, this time with a new form being finalized...
Uni launched, Sep. 11, 2011
On Sunday, Sep. 11, the Uni was put into service for the first time. Lower Manhattan residents joined us to inaugurate the Uni by gathering to browse and read our small collection on a difficult morning. While most of the surrounding blocks were locked down and public...
The Uni is home
The Uni arrived in New York tonight. It is now staged a block away from the New Amsterdam Market where it will be put into service for the first time tomorrow on Sep. 11 from 11AM-4PM. On the ride downtown tonight, at the third and final NYPD checkpoint, I hoisted the...
Uni is ready to go
We're entering the home stretch before the Uni meets the public on Sunday. Tonight, I was outside in the MIT yard late in the evening. Everyone else was inside working on the machines—staff from HY Architecture, and Alex and Constanza from MIT. They are absolutely...
Find the Uni and donate a book on Sunday, Sep. 11
More details now available about the first ever installation of the Uni on Sep. 11 at the New Amsterdam Market in Lower Manhattan. Books, Yoko Ono Wish Tree, Drawing Lab, Flash Fiction. We're deploying every cube we've got so far. Thanks to our early book donors...
Drawing Lab will loan a Zoetrope to the Uni next weekend
Artist and educator Deb Putnoi has a passion: getting you to draw. And she has a way to do it: a traveling, interactive exhibit called The Drawing Lab. We visited her studio a few days ago and asked her to create a mini Drawing Lab for the Uni. While we were...
Yoko Ono Wish Tree will stand in the Uni
I'm pleased to announce that we'll have a Yoko Ono Wish Tree in the Uni when we open next weekend at the New Amsterdam Market. Thank you Jeremy Liu and Hiroko Kikuchi. And thank you Yoko Ono. This same tree stood in the Storefront Library, and I'm moved that it will...