(This is a guest post from the amazing Jessamyn West, who we’re lucky to have with us this year as a Research Fellow.)

I live in a town of 4500 people. Like most towns in Vermont we have an annual Town Meeting. We vote by Australian Ballot on things like budgets, but there’s time at the end of the meeting for Other Business. This year we discussed whether Randolph should become a sanctuary town. Another topic was the annual publication of the names of people who hadn’t paid their taxes at the time of the town report’s publication. I can remember being a kid and seeing these names in my own hometown town report, often of our town’s poorest residents. I always found the “name and shame” aspect of it troubling, though I know that others feel this is a necessary sanction to insure that taxes get paid promptly.

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We were fortunate to have Harvard scholar (and LIL friend) Ania Aizman talk to us about Anarchism. She clarified what it was, discussed some of its different branches and how they overlap with familiar groups/events like the Occupy movement.

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Adam shared two different topics on February 24, 2017 — Mardi Gras and how to be deposed.

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Today Becky taught us about the lifetime of a star, and all of our minds were blown.

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We started a weekly series where members and friends of the LIL team teach us about something they are interested in.

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Awesome Box was a highly successful experiment that helped LIL explore new ways of enabling peer to peer reading recommendations in libraries.

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I’ve been playing with physical pitch decks lately. Slides as printed cards.

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we hosted a bunch of amazing visitors earlier this week (knight prototype workshop!) and we were fortunate enough to gather everyone for dinner. after drinks were served, i used my phone’s camera and swooped into each booth aka pocket of people.

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The Nuremberg Tribunals Project is excited to announce the launch of its new website.

Our team at the Harvard Library Innovation Lab and the Harvard Law Library’s Department of Historical and Special Collections has been working hard the past year to create a new, rich, flexible and visually appealing discovery and viewing experience for our 750,000-page Nuremberg Trials archive. The archive materials comprise the full document record for all 13 Nuremberg Trials, held at Nuremberg 1945-49. Of those, so far the project has been able to process the materials for 5 of the 13 trials and make them available online. The documents include all trial exhibits, source materials from which most of the trial exhibits were selected, and the full day-to-day proceedings for each trial as recorded in the trial transcripts. Also included are several hundred annotated photographs taken of the trial proceedings.

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I’m sharing more highlights from this year’s Ars Electronica Festival. See parts one and two for even more.

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